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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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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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A remarkable example of the manner in which pressure-changes in the skeleton may reveal the labour-history of the individual / by W. Arbuthnot Lane.
Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943.Date: [1887]- Books
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The veterinary examiner, or, Monthly record of physiology, pathology and natural history. No II, vol. I, January, 1833.
Date: 1833- Books
[Box of papers given at the Symposium on the history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions, London, 1957].
Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Brain and its Functions (1957 : London, England)Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Books
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Lectures on the history of physiology during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries / by Sir M. Foster.
Date: 1901- Books
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire anatomique et physiologique des végétaux et des animaux ... avec un atlas de 30 planches gravées / par M. H. Dutrochet.
Date: 1837