Stories
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The case for safe skin bleaching
Skin bleaching tends to attract a negative press for a whole host of reasons. But when used to treat medical problems, its positive side becomes clear.
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Documents of my breath
Swati Joshi’s childhood bronchitis meant that she couldn’t imagine being able to breathe easily. As an adult, she chronicles her recovery through artworks created using bubbles and her breath.
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The secret sting of cystitis
Agnes Arnold-Forster recounts her experiences of cystitis, explaining how this illness intersects with sexism, shame, and stigma from medical professionals.
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When wounds replace words
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
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Inflammation of the eye and injuries to health by arsenical wall-paper poisoning / by Jabez Hogg.
Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899.Date: 1879- Digital Images
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Chinese C18 woodcut: External eye - Blepharitis
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Letters from Jenner to Mrs Meade of Chatley Lodge, near Bath
Edward Jenner, 1749-1823Date: June 1812 - November 1812Reference: MS.5238Part of: Jenner family and associated individuals- Digital Images
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Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
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Lehrbuch der gesammten Entzündungen : und organischen Krankheiten des menschlichen Auges, seiner Schutz - und Hilfsorgane / von Johan Nepomuk Fischer.
Fischer, Johann Nepomuk, 1777-1848.Date: 1846