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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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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test

The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.

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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.

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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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  • Paris: the Barriere de l'Etoile, with the Military School in the background. Etching.
  • Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.
  • An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • A group of invalided soldiers at the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. Wood engraving, c. 1855.
  • Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: panoramic view. Line engraving.
  • Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. Tinted lithograph by Aubrun after himself.
  • Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. Etching by R. Wallis after Captain Batty.
  • Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.
  • Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: as seen from the river. Lithograph by Le Villain after J. David.
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