Stories
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Religion and mental health
At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.
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The christian's prayer book; or, complete manual of devotions. In four parts Containing Introductory Discourse on the Use and Advantage of Prayer. - Ejaculatious for the Morning, - Family Prayers. - Prayers for Children, for Youth, and for Servants. - Graces before and after Meat. - Instructions for Meditation, and Meditations for every Day in the Week. - Devout Reflections for every Day in the Month. - Heads of Self-Examination. - A Compendium of relative Duties. - Offices for sick Persons, and for the devout Receiving the Holy Communion, &c. &c. &c. With a great Number of Prayers and Meditations, adapted to particular Stations, Persons, and Circumstances. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, Author of The History of the Holy Bible; And Of The Life of Our Blessed Saviour.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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A new manual of devotions. In three parts. Part I. Containing Prayers for Families and Private Persons. Part II. Containing Offices. I. Of Humiliation. II. For the Sick. III. For Women with Child. Part III. Consisting of an Office for the Holy Communion: To which are added some Occasional Prayers.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A new manual of devotions. In three parts. Part I. Containing Prayers for Families and private Persons. Part II. Containing Offices. I. Of Humiliation. II. For the Sick. III. For Women with Child. Part III. Consisting of an Office for the Holy Communion: To which are added some Occasional Prayers.
Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A new manual of devotions, in three parts. Part I. Containing prayers for families and private persons. Part II. Containing offices. I. Of Humiliation. II. For the Sick. III. For Women with Child. Part III. Consisting of an office for the Holy Communion: To which are added some Occasional Prayers.
Date: 1713- Books
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The newest manual of private devotions. In three parts. Part I. Containing Devotions suited to most Persons and Cases, particularly Morning and Evening Prayers for Private Persons, & for a Family every Day in the Week: To which are Added some select Prayers for the use of Clergymen, taken from the Manuscript of a late Eminent and Pious Divine. Part II. Offices for the Sick, and Prayers in various Curcumstances of Affliction, for a Woman with Child, for Humiliation, with Exhortations against the Fear of Death, and Directions how to Prepare our selves to Die Well. Part III. The Newest Week's Preparation for the Worthy Receiving the Lord's Supper, Consisting of Suitable Prayers, Forms of Self Examination, and Confession of Sins; with Meditations to Live Well after Receiving the Holy Sacrament, and a Companion to the Lord's Table. By Leonard Howard, D. D. Rector of St. George the Martyr Southwark. Lecturer of St. Magnus London Bridge: and Chaplain to her Royal Highness Princess Dowager of Wales.
Howard, Leonard, 1699?-1767.Date: [1760]