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Heating up and drying out

Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.

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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac

Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.

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Conflicted and confused about lithium

Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?

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  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Dr. Sydenham's practice of physick: the signs, symptoms, causes and cures of diseases. With many additions from the second edition of the Latin copy. His discourses of consumptions and gouts, etc. never before published / Faithfully translated into English, with large annotations and practical observations. By William Salmon.
  • Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague. With all the particular signes and symptoms, whereof the most are too ignorant / Collected, out of the choycest authors, and confirmed with good experience. for the benefit and preservation of all, both rich and poore Stephen Bradwell.
  • Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague. With all the particular signes and symptoms, whereof the most are too ignorant / Collected, out of the choycest authors, and confirmed with good experience. for the benefit and preservation of all, both rich and poore Stephen Bradwell.
  • Illustrated information sheet on diabetes in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • Symptoms of hypoglycaemia in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
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