Stories
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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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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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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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Sharing Nature: Parks for people
Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.
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Practical observations concerning sea bathing. To which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / By A.P. Buchan.
Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.Date: 1804- Books
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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?]- Books
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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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Baths of warm air, vapour, sulphur, chlorine, camphor, and other fumigating, &c. at Mr Green's.
Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864.Date: [1827?]- 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