Stories
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
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Control of alimentary symptoms in far advanced cancer / Robert G. Twycross, Sylvia A. Lack.
Twycross, Robert G.Date: 1986
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The art of invigorating and prolonging life by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c. and peptic precepts : pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels : to which is added, the pleasure of making a will / by the author of The cook's oracle.
Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.Date: 1823
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Guanimycin : common eider.
Date: 1967
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Guanimycin : manx shearwater.
Date: 1967
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Guanimycin : Horse Guards.
Date: 1974