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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Chemotherapy-day drawings
Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.
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Laughing at disaster
If joking around can help us cope when the worst happens, could comedy be a useful way to connect on climate change?
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Galen's art of physick : Wherein is laid down, 1. A description of bodies, healthful, unhealthful, and neutral. 2. Signs of good and bad constitutions. 3. Signs of the brain, heart, liver, testicles, temperature, lungs, stomach. &c. being too hot, cold, dry. Moist, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, cold and moist. 4. Signs and causes of sickness. With many other excellent things, the particulars of which, the table of chapters will specifie. Translated into English, and largely commented on. Together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their condition, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick and astrology.
GalenDate: 1662- Books
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Galens art of physick : wherein is laid down, 1. A description of bodies, healthful, unhealthful, and neutral. 2. Signs of good and bad constitutions. 3. Signs of the brain, heart, liver, testicles: temperature, lungues, stomach, &c. being too hot, cold, dry, moist, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, cold and moist. 4. Signs and causes of sickness. With many other excellent things, the particulars of which the table of chapters will specifie. Translated into English, and largely commented on; together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick and astrologie.
GalenDate: 1652 [i.e. 1653]- Books
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Galen's Art of physick : wherein is laid down, 1. a description of bodies, healthful, unhealthful, and neutral 2. signs of good and bad constitutions 3. signs of the brain, heart, liver, testicles, temperature, lungs, stomach, &c., being too hot, cold, dry, moist, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, cold and moist 4. signs and causes of sickness, with many other excellent things, the particulars of which, the Table of contents will specifie : translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their condition, and what diet and excercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpepper.
GalenDate: 1671- Books
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Galens art of physick : wherein is laid down, 1. A description of bodies, healthful, unhealthful, and neutral. 2. Signs of good and bad constitutions. 3. Signs of the brain, heart, liver, testicles, temperature, lungues, stomach, &c. being too hot, cold, dry, moist, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, cold and moist. 4. Signs and causes of sickness. With many other excellent things, the particulars of which, the table of chapters will specifie. Translated into English, and largely commented on. Together with convenient medicines for al [sic] particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their condition, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick and astrology.
GalenDate: 1657- Digital Images
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Thermal image of hot liquid being poured into a cold flask
Dr. Caroline Pope and William Parish, University of Bristol