Stories
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What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
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A little wildness
To salve her longing for a dog, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan chose a puppy. She found that, despite centuries of domestication, her dog still retains aspects of her wild ancestry.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Domestic medicine or The family medical adviser : a manual of health. With recipes.
Date: 1843- Books
Domestic medicine, or The family physician : wherein the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen & simple medicines, is clearly laid down and considered. Also, an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners with ... new treatises ... / By William Buchan, M.D.
Buchan, William, 1729-1805.Date: 1826- Books
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Domestic medicine; or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines. By William Buchan, M.D. [Four lines in Latin from Cicero]
Buchan, William, 1729-1805.Date: [1772?]- Books
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Domestic medicine, or, the family physician ... : being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by showing people what is in their own power, both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ... with notes and large additions / By William Buchan ... with notes and large additions, by a medical gentleman.
Buchan, William, 1729-1805.Date: 1802- Books
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Domestic medicine; or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines. By William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. [Four lines of Latin quotations]
Buchan, William, 1729-1805.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]