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Hysteria

Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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Graphic battles in pharmacy

James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.

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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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  • The Lancet: The brain
  • Blumdells's Gravitator; the Lancet, 1829
  • Grooved vaccination Lancet in case.
  • Lancet "commission for investigating...workhouse infirmaries"
  • Avelings transfusion apparatus; the Lancet, 1872
  • Lister, On the antiseptic principle...Lancet
  • The Lancet, July - Dec 1870
  • The Lancet: Dr Mantell on suicide
  • The Lancet, July - Dec 1870
  • The Lancet, January 6th, 1827, cover
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