Stories
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
Catalogue
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On some preventive measures adopted in the Presidency of Madras during the late epidemic prevalence of plague in India / by J. Spencer Low ..., Metropolitan Asylums Board, North-Eastern Hospital; late Medical Officer of the Plague Camp and Railway Inspection Station, Jalarpet.
Low, J. Spencer.Date: 1900- Books
Medical topography and statistics of the Presidency of Madras : compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.
Date: 1843-1844- Books
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Report, on the medical topography and statistics, of the provinces of Malabar and Canara / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.
Madras (India)Date: 1844- Books
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Report on the medical topography and statistics of the centre division of the Madras Army / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.
Madras (India : State)Date: 1843- Books
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Report, on the medical topography and statistics, of the Mysore division of the Madras army / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Published by order of government.
Madras (India : Presidency). Medical Department.Date: 1844