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The building as tool of healing

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms

Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?

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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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  • Tongue of a child with Bright's disease
  • Contracted and granular kidney in the last stage of Bright's disease
  • Bright's disease. Table by Richard bright showing morbid appearances of the various organs in cases having Albuminous urine.
  • A treatise, wherein is declared the sufficiencie of English medicines, for cure of all diseases, cured with medicine / [Timothie Bright].
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
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