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Grease

Stains on your pillow are evidence of a late-night sebum party in your head.

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Beautiful bedding and how to die well

When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.

  • Article

Drops of water

In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.

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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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  • Normal blood picture; Giemsa stain.
  • Blood smear showing erythroblastosis fetalis; giemsa stain.
  • Fragile X diagnostic test - male, no stain
  • Fragile X diagnostic test - male, no stain
  • Blood cells in myeloid leukaemia stained with Ehrlich's triple stain, as seen under a microscope. Watercolour after A. Goodall, 1912.
  • Fragile X chromosome, various stains
  • For ink-spots, iron-moulds, stains, &c. the true essential salt of lemons ... / William Bayley.
  • For ink-spots, iron-moulds, stains, &c. the true essential salt of lemons ... / William Bayley.
  • Mercifulness : Hudson's Extract of Soap is merciful to the clothes; it only removes the dirt, grease, and stains, leaving the linen behind- spotlessly white, wholesome and pure : Hudson's Soap.
  • Antibiotic stained tooth
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