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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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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
| Cheryl Porter
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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What our facial hair says about us
| David JesudasonSteven Pocock
Five bearded and moustachioed men choose five hirsute archive images to help them reflect on the way facial hair is linked with personality and identity.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
| Julia Nurse
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.