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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
| Alice White
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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What is hysteria?
| Sarah Jaffray
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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How to cure the eco-anxious
| Christine Ro
Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
| Thomas MorrisEmily Evans
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
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Healthy scepticism
| Caitjan GaintyAgnes Arnold-ForsterPaul AddaeFranklyn Rodgers
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.