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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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What is hysteria?

Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies

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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.

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  • A manual of diseases of the nervous system / by W.R. Gowers.
  • A manual of diseases of the nervous system / by Sir W.R. Gowers.
  • The nervous system of the human body: as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London; with an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases ... / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • The nervous system of the human body: as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London; with an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases ... / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • The nervous system of the human body: as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London; with an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases ... / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • Clinical lectures on diseases of the nervous system delivered at the infirmary of la Sal Petriere. Vol. 3 / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by Thomas Savill.
  • Diseases of the nervous system. Care of the loss of speech and its association with partial destruction of left-anterior lobe of the brain (localization of speech centres).
  • On the diseases and derangements of the nervous system. In their primary forms and in their modifications by age, sex, constitution, hereditary predisposition, excesses, general disorder, and organic disease : Marshall Hall / [Marshall Hall].
  • On the diseases and derangements of the nervous system. In their primary forms and in their modifications by age, sex, constitution, hereditary predisposition, excesses, general disorder, and organic disease : Marshall Hall / [Marshall Hall].
  • Self-preservation : a medical treatise on nervous & physical debility, spermatorrhœa, impotence & sterility with practical observations on the use of the microscope in the treatment of the diseases of the generative system / by Samuel La'Mert.
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