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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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Keeping death close

Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.

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The intermediate life of spirits

Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.

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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols

What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.

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  • Dermoid cyst laid open, showing maxillary bone containing teeth; the head of one of the long bones; skin with hair growing from its surface; serous membrane (probe passed underneath); mucous membrane of stomach directly next to serous membrane (Baldy)
  • Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].
  • Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].
  • Cartilage, trabecular bone and bone marrow in a mouse femur
  • Measurements of the bones, back view, Chinese woodcut
  • North American Eskmio slate knife blade, with bone handle.
  • Osteocytes, canaliculi and haversian canals in bone, LM
  • Growing bone
  • Acu-moxa aid: landmark measurements, Chinese MS, late Qing
  • Body measurements, front view, Chinese woodcut, 1443
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