Stories
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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The Count of Gabalis: or, Conferences about secret sciences : Rendered out of French into English. With an advice to the reader. / By A.L. A.M.
Villars, abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri), 1635-1673Date: M. DC. LXXX. [1680]- Books
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Loimologia : A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest. By Geo. Thomson, Dr of physick.
Thomson, George, active 17th century.Date: 1665- Books
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Oraison funebre de tres haute & tres puissante Princesse Marie, reine d'Angleterre, d'ecosse, de France, & d'Irlande : Prononcée le jour de ses funerailles par Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Canterbury. Traduire en François par L.D.
Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715Date: 1695- Books
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Two letters: the first, being a relation of a sad accident that fell out at Erpingham neer Norwich : July 2. shewing how a fire-ball fell from the heavens into the parish church there, broke down part of the steeple and several places in the church-wall, kill'd one man and wounded diverse, &c. The second, being a relation of a strange sight in the heavens, seen by three justices of the peace their sons. Dated, Hungerford in Wiltshire, June 19. 1665.
Date: 1665- Books
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Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published : upon these words, Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signes of heaven, for the heathen are dismayed at them, Jer. 10. 2. Against the scurrilous aspersions of that grand imposter Mr. William Lillie; as also against the various expositions of two of his advocates, Mr. John Swan, and another by him cited, but not named: together with the annotations themselvs. Wherein the pretended grounds of judiciary astrologie, and the Scripture-proofes produced for it, are discussed and refuted. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. April 12. 1653.
Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654Date: 1653