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- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
| Lalita Kaplish
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Article
- Article
Would you like to buy a unicorn?
| Cassidy Phillips
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
| Stevyn Colgan
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- 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.