Stories
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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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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The practical bee-master: or, a treatise, wherein the management of bees, both in common hives, and in the colony way, without killing them for their honey, is, step by step and on all probable occurrences, better and more particularly directed, than in any book hitherto published. By Robert Maxwell of Arkland, a Member of, and Secretary to, the Honourable, the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland.
Maxwell, Robert, 1695-1765.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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Supplement to the ministers widows scheme, in a letter to the clergy, directing the improvement of their glebes. Wherein It is shewn, That the Plan here laid down, may be executed to the far greatest Profit. And how every farmer, by applying the Rules offered, may improve any Number of Acres to a proportional Advantage. By Robert Maxwell of Arkland, a Member of, and Secretary to the Honourable, the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. When the Dust groweth into Hardness, and the Clods cleave fast together, Wilt thou hunt the Prey for the Lion, or fill the Appetite of the young Lions? &c. Job. Entered in Stationers-Hall.
Maxwell, Robert, 1695-1765.Date: 1747- Books
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A great number of the nobility and gentry having come to a resolution to encourage the wearing of home made linnen [sic] cloth, the Honourable Society for Improving in the Knowledge of Agriculture have advised the publishing of the following rules for propagating and dressing of lint and hemp, and for bleaching and whitning [sic] of linnen [sic] cloth.
Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland.Date: 1726]- Books
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An abridgment of Mr. David Brainerd's Journal among the Indians. Or, the rise and progress of a remarkable work of grace among a number of the Indians. In the Provinces of New-Jersey and Pensylvania. By David Brainerd Minister of the Gospel, and Missionary from the Honourable Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge. To which is prefix'd a dedication to the said Society, by P. Doddridge, D.D.
Brainerd, David, 1718-1747.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Dooms-Day: or, a discourse upon the day of judgement: OR, Great Day of Our Lord; raised, by way of sermon, from the 2 Thess: 1 chap: 10 vers: - When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, &c. Dedicated Unto the Right Honourable, The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Kingdom of Scotland, for the Behoof of the Poor especially. By W. C. Preacher of the gospel.
W. C., preacher of the gospel.Date: Printed in the Year 1721