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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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The cures and demons of sleep paralysis
| Sarah Jaffray
Discover the murky past of sleep paralysis, the terrifying disorder once associated with demonic possession
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The soul in the stomach
| Michael WalkdenAnnemarieke Kloosterhof
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
| Samantha WaltonSteven Pocock
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.