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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India

Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.

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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep

For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.

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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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  • Satirical veterinary frontispiece, 1771
  • Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man hypnotising a woman using the animal magnetism method. Engraving, 1802, after D. Dodd.
  • A man hypnotising a woman using the animal magnetism method. Engraving, 1802, after D. Dodd.
  • Lt. Col. Ashburnham performing animal magnetism on Lt. Col. Forbes. Pen and ink drawing, 183-.
  • Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
  • Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
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