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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols

What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable

Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Colonie préhistorique et commerce de sel a Hallstadt (Haute Autriche) / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Colonie préhistorique et commerce de sel a Hallstadt (Haute Autriche) / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Négociants phéniciens faisant le commerce d'objets en bronze à Carthage / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Négociants phéniciens faisant le commerce d'objets en bronze à Carthage / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Départ d'une flotte de commerce des Indes pour le pays de l'or sur la côté orientale de l'Afrique / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Départ d'une flotte de commerce des Indes pour le pays de l'or sur la côté orientale de l'Afrique / Compagnie Liebig.
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