Stories
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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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The cures and demons of sleep paralysis
Discover the murky past of sleep paralysis, the terrifying disorder once associated with demonic possession
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The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
Catalogue
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The education of the central nervous system : a study of foundations, especially of sensory and motor training / by Reuben Post Halleck.
Halleck, Reuben Post, 1859-1936.Date: 1896- Archives and manuscripts
Poster for Head's lecture on diagnostic value of sensory changes in diseases of the nervous system
Date: 1912Reference: PP/HEA/B.14Part of: Head, Sir Henry
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Neurons or nerve cells are the core components of the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS), and of the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) controlling many motor and sensory functions of the body.
Odra Noel
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Neurons or nerve cells are the core components of the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS), and of the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) controlling many motor and sensory functions of the body.
Odra Noel
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The sensory system of the facial nerve and its symptomatology / by J. Ramsay Hunt.
Hunt, James Ramsay, 1872-1937.Date: 1909