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Chillies and the trouble with Scoville
| Danny Birchall
Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.
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How I cured my fear of vomiting
| Alex BruceSteven Pocock
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero
| David JesudasonSteven Pocock
Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.
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Remote romance and the common cold
| Elena CarterThomas S G Farnetti
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
- Long read
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
| Guy StaggJess Nash
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
| Aarathi Prasad
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.