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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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The history of sanatoriums and surveillance

The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.

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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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  • A Handbook of the Open Air Treatment
  • Nottingham: open air treatment of sick children. Photograph, ca. 191-.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
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