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 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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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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Collected papers / Department of Diseases of the Nervous System, Harvard Medical School.
Date: 1931-1942
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Massage and its applications : a concluding lecture delivered to nurses and masseuses, at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy, 73, Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits.
Tibbits, Herbert, 1838-1907.Date: [1887]
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Medical galvanism : an introductory lecture delivered to nurses and masseuses, at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis and Epilepsy, Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits.
Tibbits, Herbert, 1838-1907.Date: 1887
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Electrical and anatomical demonstrations : delivered at the School of Massage and Electricity, in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis and Epilepsy, Welbeck Street, London. A handbook for trained nurses and masseuses / by Herbert Tibbits.
Tibbits Herbert, 1838-Date: 1887
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Massage and allied methods of treatment : an abstract of lectures delivered to trained nurses and masseuses at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy 73 Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits.
Date: 1888