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Living with invisible illness

What happens when the signs of your illness are invisible to the rest of the world? Hannah Turner describes the daily struggles of living with invisible illness.

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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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Smoking and the pleasure principle

Cigarettes gifted ex-smoker David Jesudason coughing, wheezing and fatigue, yet they also gave him pleasure. Here he unpicks his fluctuating attitudes towards lighting up.

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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions

Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?

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  • Cough! Cough! Cough! Hack! Hack! Hack! Bark! Bark! Bark! : why do you cough?.
  • Fennings' Hooping Cough Powders.
  • Fenner's Cough Oils and Cough Balls : for colds, influenza, broken wind, &c. in the horse... / prepared by Cary Cocks and Roper.
  • Melvin's Vegetable Pills, Nerve Liniment, and Cough Syrup.
  • Melvin's Vegetable Pills, Nerve Liniment, and Cough Syrup.
  • Cough suppression with decongestion : ...'Actifed' Compound Linctus.
  • Cough suppression with decongestion : ...'Actifed' Compound Linctus.
  • Cough suppression with decongestion : ...'Actifed' Compound Linctus.
  • Prevention is better than cure : Harris' Crown Cough Tablets.
  • Directions for taking Crosby's Balsamic Cough Elixir / James M. Crosby.
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