Stories
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
Catalogue
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The art of modern China / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen.
Andrews, Julia FrancesDate: [2012], ©2012- Books
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The art of doing good : charity in late Ming China / Joanna Handlin Smith.
Smith, Joanna HandlinDate: [2009], ©2009- Books
The "silent art" of ancient China : historical analysis of the intellectual and philosophical influences in the earliest medical corpus, Ling shu ching / by Francis Ruey-Shuang Lee ; foreword by John B. de C.M. Saunders.
Lee, Francis Ruey-Shuang.Date: [1980], ©1980- Pictures
Jinshan Temple, River Min, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870-1871Reference: 18760i- Books
Dreams of spring : erotic art in China from the Bertholet Collection / [edited, designed and produced by the Pepin Press].
Date: 1997