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Meredith Wadman’s prescription for writing
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- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
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- Article
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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Our endless quest for eternal youth
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Catalogue
- Ephemera
Exercise ephemera. Box 4.
- Books
Exercise? : yes, but ... / by Morton M. Hunt.
Hunt, Morton M., 1920-2016.Date: 1955- Archives and manuscripts
British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
British Association of Sport and Exercise MedicineDate: 1952-2003Reference: SA/BSM- Ephemera
- Online
Body stretching / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]- Pictures
Men and women taking exercise to keep the heart healthy. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2001.
Date: [2001?]Reference: 749526i