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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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How to stay together while keeping apart

Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.

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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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  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey].
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A dozen scenes presenting the manifold aspects of a family doctor's personality. Wood engraving by M.B.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A country doctor riding a horse. Mezzotint by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, ca. 1900 (?).
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