Stories
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Shakespeare and the four humours
Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The cures and demons of sleep paralysis
Discover the murky past of sleep paralysis, the terrifying disorder once associated with demonic possession
Catalogue
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Pipe dreams : the urgent global quest to transform the toilet / Chelsea Wald.
Wald, ChelseaDate: 2021- Pictures
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A doctor reading a newspaper article on the prospect of a decrease in influenza - his wife hopes for the reverse. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1892.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1892Reference: 14297i- Books
The Bamforth collection - saucy postcards / Marcus Hearn.
Hearn, MarcusDate: 2013- Books
Sense of humors : the human factor in the history of medicine / Luca Borghi.
Borghi, Luca, 1962-Date: [2022]- Pictures
A doctor's advice to two lady patients - that the attractive one return to see him frequently whereas the other must seek a new climate in New Zealand. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1889.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1889Reference: 14292i