Stories
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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How your hairdresser could save your life
Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.
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On man. A satyr. By a person of honour.
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.Date: 1680 - 1714]- Books
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the most honorable and loyal Society of Ancient Britons, for supporting the charity school, erected in Gray's-Inn-Road, London; with a List of the Governors and Annual Subscribers.
Society of Ancient Britons.Date: 1800- Books
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The kent and Sussex, association of Baptist Churches, consisting of those which meet at Ashford, Sandhurst; Folkstone, Bessel's Green, Chatham, and Eynsford, in Kent; and at Rye, Rotherfield, Wivelsfield, Lewes, Brighthelmston, and Handcross, in Sussex. Maintaining The important Doctrines of Three equal Persons in the Divine Essence. - Eternal and Personal Election to Holiness here, and Eternal Life hereafter. - The original Guilt and Depravity of Mankind. - Particular Redemption. - Free Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ alone. - Efficacious Grace in Regeneration. - And the Perseverance of the Saints to Eternal Glory. Assembled at Rye, in Sussex, the 3d and 4th days in June, 1800.
Baptist Church. Kent and Sussex Association.Date: [1800]- Books
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The nature and excellency of the duty of alms-giving. A sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Gile's in the Fields. Sunday, Nov. 17. 1706. on behalf of the charity-schools settled in that Parish; consisting of Eighty Five Boys, and One Hundred Girls. By Sir William Dawes, Baronet, D.D. and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Publish'd at the request of the Trustees, for the said Charity-Schools, and others of the Hearers.
Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.Date: 1707- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]