Stories
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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On nature cures and taking the waters
When chilly outdoor swims began to chip away at her depression, Jessica J Lee was drawn to a closer study of the complex natural world around her.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
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'Indigestion', by Cruikshank
George Cruikshank- Audio
Indigestion[sound recording].
Date: 2004- Ephemera
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Indigestion? : take... Moorland Antacid Indigestion Tablets for the relief of indigestion, heartburn, dyspepsia, flatulence, acidity.
W.B. Cartwright Ltd.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Books
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[Indigestion] / by W.J. Sinclair.
Sinclair, W. J.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]- Ephemera
Indigestion and constipation ephemera. Box 1.