Stories
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
Catalogue
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Atoquinol (allyl phenylcinchoninester) : the most active eliminant of irritant or toxic acid waste without harmful action on digestive or other systems.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Books
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Drug eruptions : a clinical study of the irritant effects of drugs upon the skin.
Morrow, Prince A. (Prince Albert), 1846-1913.Date: 1887- Books
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Counter-irritation, its principles and practice : illustrated by one hundred cases of the most painful and important diseases effectually cured by external applications / by A.B. Granville.
Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.Date: 1838- Books
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Drug eruptions : a clinical study on the irritant effects of drugs upon the skin / by Prince A. Morrow.
Morrow Prince A. (Prince Albert), 1846-1913.Date: 1887- Books
The treatment of surgical inflammations : by a new method, which greatly shortens their duration / by Furneaux Jordan.
Jordan, Furneaux (John Furneaux), 1830?-1911.Date: 1870