Stories
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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Documents of my breath
Swati Joshi’s childhood bronchitis meant that she couldn’t imagine being able to breathe easily. As an adult, she chronicles her recovery through artworks created using bubbles and her breath.
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How depression ruined my relationship with sleep
One reaction to depression is a craving for sleep, creating a dependence that can provoke guilt and anxiety. Emerging from “five blurry years”, one writer tracks her steps to better health.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Notes on the therapeutics of radium in the Bath waters : a handbook for the medical profession / published by the Bath Corporation with the approval of the Bath Medical Committee of the British Medical Association ; compiled by John Hatton.
Date: [1913?]
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de lavatione frigida ... / [James Maddocks].
Maddocks, James.Date: 1762- Books
Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de lavatione frigida ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Adam Kuhn, Pensylvaniensis.
Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817.Date: 1767
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A treatise on the beneficial effects of cold and warm bathing : with an appendix containing a description of the baths erected at Portobello, near Edinburgh.
Date: 1807- Books
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Observations on the use of bathing; warm and cold: and the diseases it will cure without a doctor. With an account of the cicer venereum, ... the celebrated restorative among the antient Greeks, ... Illustrated with its figure.
Date: 1759