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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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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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Conflicted and confused about lithium
Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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Praxis medica. The practice of physick: or, Dr. Sydenham's Processus integri, translated out of Latin into English, with large annotations, animadversions and practical observations on the same. Containing The Names, Places, Signs, Causes, Prognonosticks, and Cures, of all the most Usual and Popular Diseases afflicting the Bodies of Human Kind, according to the most approved Modes of Practice. Among which you have The Pathology, and Various Methods of Curing A Clap, Virulent Running of the Reins, and the French Pox, with all their Attendent Symptoms, beyond whatever was yet publish'd on this Subject by any other Author, Ancient or Modern, since the Disease first appeared in the World, to this Day. The third edition, inlarged throughout, with some thousands of additions not in the first impression. By William Salmon, M.D.
Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.Date: 1716- Books
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The signs and symptoms of plague / by James Cantlie.
Cantlie, James, Sir, 1851-1926.Date: 1900- Books
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Quackery unmask'd: in three parts. Containing I. Reflexions on the sixth edition of Mr. Martin's Treatise of the venereal disease, II. An examination of The charitable surgeon, the Generous Surgeon, Venus's Tomb, and G. Warren's new Method of curing this Disease. III. A brief enquiry into the ancient and present state of the practices of physick and Surgery; a full Account of Quacks; then (in a concise Method) is shewn the Cause, Nature, Signs, and dangerous Effects of this Disease, various Ways of receiving, Symptoms first discovering, and only Method of preventing its Infection; together with the best, most cheap, fafe, speedy, easy, and private Methods of Cure. The Complication of the Venereal Disease, with others, is here particularly treated of. How Mercury cures this Disease; how Persons injur'd by Mercury, may be reliev'd, is here discover'd. As also The Cause and Cure of Old Gleets in Men, and the Whites in Women. Authore J. Spinke, Med. Lond.
Spinke, John.Date: [1711]- Books
Symptoms, signs and syndromes : a medical glossary / B. Champney, F.G. Smiddy.
Champney, B. (Betty)Date: [1979]- Books
Fish's Clinical psychopathology : signs and symptoms in psychiatry.
Fish, F. J. (Frank James)Date: 1974