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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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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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John Thomas. Stipple engraving by T. H. Ellis.
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Effra House, Brixton: with several patients walking in the grounds. Engraving by T. H. Ellis.
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The Edinburgh new dispensatory : containing, I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry: II. The materia medica, or, The natural, pharmaceutical, and medical history, of the substances employed in medicine: III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions including translations of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia published in 1817, of the Dublin Pharmacopoeia in 1807, and of the London Pharmacopoeia in 1815. Illustrated and explained in the languages, and according to the principles, of modern chemistry. With numerous tables / by Andrew Duncan, Jun.
Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832.Date: 1822- Books
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An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1694 : Being the second after bissextile, or leap-year. By M.F. Philomath.
M. F., active 19th centuryDate: [1694]- Pictures
The Montpellier Spa and Pump rooms and grounds, Cheltenham. Coloured line engraving, 1828, after H. Lamb.
Lamb, H., active 1828.Date: 1 September 1828Reference: 16631i