Stories
- Article
The food diary and the power of unhealth
Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
- Book extract
Permission to recover
When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.
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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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Headache cured : Dr. Mettaur's Headache Pills, a certain relief. Twenty-five cents.
Date: [Between 1880 amd 1889?]- Archives and manuscripts
Headache
Bebbington, Betty, active approximately 1965Date: 14 December 1965Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/5/13Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)- Archives and manuscripts
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Headache, migraine
Date: 1966 - 1995Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/2/22Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Headache
Date: 1950sReference: PP/GWP/C/6/31Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Archives and manuscripts
Headache
Date: c.1926-c.1952Reference: PP/HUN/C/2/87Part of: Hunter, Donald (1898-1977)