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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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The grape cure

When we bring someone in hospital a bunch of grapes, we don't expect the grapes to work a miraculous cure upon them. But throughout history, wondrous healing powers have been attributed to the humble grape.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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  • A health resort (?). Lithograph.
  • Ragaz health resort, Zürich, Switzerland: panoramic view. Aquatint.
  • Health resort, Boppard am Rhein, Marienberg, Germany. Line engraving.
  • A man visiting a health resort is sitting in a steam box. Engraving, May 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being sprayed with water; man seated on a stool in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being sprayed with water; man seated on a stool in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being sprayed with water coming from a stool on which he is trying to sit. Etching, 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort is seated in a cubicle and is being sprayed with water coming from the walls. Etching, May 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
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