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The blood notebooks

Novelist Rupert Thomson explores his unusual behaviour during a time of self-imposed isolation.

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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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We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies

Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.

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Bleeding healthy

For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.

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  • Anatomical blood-letting figure, 16th Century
  • Angels performing a "spiritual blood-letting". Gouache.
  • Lancet and case-for blood-letting. Georgian period.
  • Blood letting 18th- 19th century: artificial leeches.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a man's arm. Oil painting.
  • Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.
  • An English scarificator with six lancets used for blood-letting made by Fuller of London
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