Stories
- Article
How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
- Book extract
Your gut’s instincts
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson explores the stomach’s influence over our emotions, and why trusting your gut is often good advice.
- Article
Finding solidarity in arachnophobia
Arachnophobia is very different from just disliking spiders. Izzie Price shares the reality of having the phobia, and explores its likely origins.
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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Thompson, W. H. - The Metabolism of Voluntary Muscle: I.: The Effect of Prolonged Excitation of Motor Nerves on the Creatine Content of Limb Muscles
Date: 1917Reference: DGH1/6/18/203Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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On the effects of the kneading of muscles upon the circulation, local and general / by T. Lauder Brunton and F.W. Tunnicliffe.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: 1894- Archives and manuscripts
"Pathology and physiology of muscle pain", Dr. Kerry Mills PhD and Miss Dr. Newham MCSP
Date: Mid 20th century - late 20th centuryReference: SA/CSP/J.5/10/4/46Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy- Books
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On the muscles and nerves of a chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger) and a Cynocephalus anubis / by Frank Champneys.
Champneys, Francis Henry, Sir, 1848-1930.Date: [1871]- Books
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A report on Prof. L. Hermann's recent researches on the electro-motive properties of muscle / by J. Burdon-Sanderson.
Burdon-Sanderson, John Scott, 1828-1905.Date: [1878]