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Meredith Wadman’s prescription for writing
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Vaccine Race’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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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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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
Catalogue
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Exercise? : yes, but ... / by Morton M. Hunt.
Hunt, Morton M., 1920-2016.Date: 1955- Pictures
Men and women taking exercise to keep the heart healthy. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2001.
Date: [2001?]Reference: 749526i- Ephemera
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Body stretching / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]- Books
Health : a scientifically compiled course of exercise and diet for men and women anxious to secure good health and all that good health means.
Date: [1931?]- Books
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Physical culture for men, women and children (Ling-Swedish system) : an easy method of acquiring and preserving health and strength without apparatus, by a fifteen minutes' morning exercise / Arthur Edmund Tanner.
Tanner, Arthur Edmund.Date: 1894