Natasha Mcenroe: The Medicine Cabinet: The story of health & and disease told through extraordinary objects [2019] hardback ZPSYC A poem seems a fragile

A poem seems a fragile thing

What if Mama isn't a protector - but a monster

but somehow he's kept his feet on the ground

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Natasha Mcenroe: The Medicine Cabinet: The story of health & and disease told through extraordinary objects [2019] hardback ZPSYC A poem seems a fragileThe Medicine Cabinet is a beautifully curated and expertly written compendium of over 100 astonishing objects related to the story of medicine. Each object is cared for by London's Science Museum, which houses one of the largest and most significant collections of medical artefacts in the world including a Bronze Age trepanned skull, healing water from an Ancient Greek well, a seventeenth century barber's pole, a pharmacist's ceramic leech jar, a gold