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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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The healing power of the physic garden

Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep

For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.

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  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this ... being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a compleat method of physick... / by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey].
  • A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / By R. James.
  • A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / By R. James.
  • The Chelsea Physic Garden, London: two men at work in a laboratory drying and sorting seeds for research on medicinal herbs. Photograph, 1921.
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