Stories
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The soul in the stomach
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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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The human digestive organs. Colour lithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
Ruprecht, H.J.Date: [1872?]Reference: 572926i- Books
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Physiology of digestion and the digestive organs / by Arthur Gamgee.
Gamgee, Arthur, 1841-1909.Date: [1884?]- Books
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The indigestions, or, Diseases of the digestive organs functionally treated / by Thomas King Chambers.
Date: 1867- Books
Diseases and disorders of the digestive organs / by Adolphe Abrahams.
Abrahams, Adolphe, Sir, 1883-1967.Date: 1932- Books
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On atrophy of the stomach and on the nervous affections of the digestive organs / by Samuel Fenwick.
Fenwick, Samuel, 1821-1902.Date: 1880