Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
List of Harrower's Polycrines : pluriglandular formulas in "Sanitablets".
Date: 1926- Books
- Online
Operative versus therapeutic treatment of strumous cervical glands / by Bertram Thornton.
Thornton, Bertram.Date: 1890- Books
Ergot compounds and brain function : neuroendocrine and neuropsychiatric aspects / editors, Menek Goldstein [and others].
Date: [1980], ©1980- Ephemera
- Online
Biogastrone heals gastric ulcers in ambulant patients usually in 4 - 6 weeks.
Date: [approximately 1965]- Ephemera
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Carter's Little Nerve Pills for the nervous & dyspeptic : find - cow, owl, fox, frog, parrot, horse, lizard, goose, man smoking pipe, rooster crowing, General Grant, Romeo and Juliet ... / Carter Medicine Co.
Carter Medicine Co.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]