Stories
- Article
Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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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.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
De Witt's Kidney & Bladder Pills : diuretic stimulant - urinary antiseptic.
Date: [1954]
- Ephemera
- Online
"They are for mother" : Doan's Backache Kidney Pills Co.'s specific for kidney complaints / Doan's Backache Kidney Pill Co.
Doan's Backache Kidney Pill Co.Date: 1902
- Books
- Online
On the use of codeine to relieve pain in abdominal disease / by T. Lauder Brunton.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: 1888- Ephemera
Pyridium... : (phenylaze-alpha-alpha-diamine-pyridine mono-hydrochloride) : produces prompt relief of painful and frequent urination, nocturia, tenesmus, perineal irritability / Pyridium Corporation.
Pyridium Corporation.Date: 1942- Ephemera
Got a headache? : ... wait a minute, Disprin dissolves in about 60 seconds : gets to where the pain is - fast.
Date: [1979?]