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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
| Nelly Ekström
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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What the nose doesn’t know
| Stephanie Howard-SmithSteven Pocock
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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Hysteria
| Helen FosterEast Midlands Oral History ArchiveAsma Istwani
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
| Millie van der Byl Williams
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.