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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry

Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.

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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug

Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.

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Finding my body through the wilderness

Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.

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The birth of Britain's National Health Service

Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.

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  • Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].
  • Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].
  • Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].
  • Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].
  • The death of Major Peirson in the battle of Jersey. Engraving by A. Kessler after J.S. Copley.
  • Malaya: the officers' mess and major's quarters on Penang Island. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.
  • Dissection of the trunk of a seated white man, showing major blood-vessels. Coloured lithograph by J. Maclise, 1851.
  • Dissection of the trunk of a seated black man, showing major blood-vessels. Coloured lithograph by J. Maclise, 1851.
  • Dissection of the trunk of a seated white man, showing major blood-vessels. Coloured lithograph by J. Maclise, 1851.
  • Dissection of the abdomen and thigh of a standing man, showing major blood-vessels. Coloured lithograph by J. Maclise, 1851.
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