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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
| Natasha Ruiz-GómezKathleen Arundell
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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When monarchs healed the sick
| Rita YatesSteven Pocock
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
| Briony Hudson
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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The conditional child
| Deanna Fei
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.