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On nature cures and taking the waters

When chilly outdoor swims began to chip away at her depression, Jessica J Lee was drawn to a closer study of the complex natural world around her.

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Graphic Gallery: Blue

Earth is often known as the ‘blue planet’. Its blue skies and seas represent the air we breathe and the water we drink.

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The grape cure

When we bring someone in hospital a bunch of grapes, we don't expect the grapes to work a miraculous cure upon them. But throughout history, wondrous healing powers have been attributed to the humble grape.

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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium

In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.

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  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • A boy drinking water from a dollar note: water sanitation in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
  • A child drinking a glass of water: importance of treating water in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A man in Russia drinking unboiled water from a pail carried by a woman. Lithograph, 192-.
  • A man in Russia drinking unboiled water from a pail carried by a woman. Lithograph, 192-.
  • A woman drinking water from a big jug held by another woman. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Fontaine St-Nicodeme. A child drinking water from the fountain out of the brim of a hat.
  • A woman drinking water from a big jug held by another woman. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Old Calabar, Nigeria: local people gathering drinking water from a river, filling vessels and washing clothes (?). Photograph, 1910/1920.
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