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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.

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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.

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  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • Two young men wake up in bed with headaches on Sunday morning after much drinking the night before. Colour lithograph, 1913.
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