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A history of gestation outside the body

It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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A brief history of tattoos

The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.

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A history of mindfulness

Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.

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  • On animal and vegetable parasites of the human body : a manual of their natural history, diagnosis, and treatment / by Frederich Küchenmeister ; translated from the 2nd German ed., by Edwin Lankester.
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
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