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Drugs, space travel and the ‘age of promise’

Space-age wonder drug Terramycin promised utopia, but might instead have triggered one of the biggest threats to our future.

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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

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A story of death, trauma and austerity

Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.

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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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  • Genetic nightmare at Huntingdon Life Sciences / SHAC.
  • Genetic nightmare at Huntingdon Life Sciences / SHAC.
  • Fabahistin : mebhydrolin napadisylate : when hayfever becomes a nightmare / Bayer UK Limited.
  • Fabahistin : mebhydrolin napadisylate : when hayfever becomes a nightmare / Bayer UK Limited.
  • Two elderly women in bed, disturbed from sleep by a nightmare vision of "The monster" (R. Williams), 1790. Drawing.
  • A perturbed young woman asleep with a devil sitting on her chest; symbolizing her nightmare. Stipple engraving by J.P. Simon, 1810.
  • A perturbed young woman asleep with a devil sitting on her chest; symbolizing her nightmare. Stipple engraving by J.P. Simon, 1810.
  • John Bull has a nightmare about income tax represented by Sir Robert Peel sitting on his chest surrounded by donkeys (asses). Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1842.
  • David Garrick in the rôle of Richard III, awakening from his nightmare in the tent with military activities in the background. Etching by W. Hogarth and C. Grignion after W. Hogarth.
  • Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895: the Chinese ambassador (?) as a patient in bed, being treated with an icepack on his head, has a nightmare of the advance of the Japanese army. Coloured woodcut, 1895.
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