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Diagnosing the past
| Joanne Edge
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
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The healing power of the physic garden
| Iona Glen
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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- 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.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
| Anna Faherty
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.