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Trust me, I’m a patient

Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.

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Surviving a flesh-eating disease

Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.

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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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Doris Day blows against

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

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  • Small bulldog standing in front of a large rock. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A small donkey loaded with two full baskets standing outside a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A horse has been killed after jumping a hurdle in a steeplechase: the jockey holding a whip looks at it with concern. Wood engraving by E. Froment, 1874 after W. Small.
  • A mounted huntsmen follows his hounds to a small stream in a wood. Etching by E. Hacker after J. F. Herring.
  • A small bird, the wall creeper (Tichodroma muraria), spotting a spider on a wall. Coloured lithograph by E. Travies, ca. 1830.
  • 5 Stethoscopes. A- very small, B and C- obtained from Italy. D- bell shaped. E- not unlike a french type.
  • A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.
  • A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.
  • A stag and a group of deer resting near a small lake in a forest. Etching by J.S. Müller after J.E. Ridinger.
  • A barber shaving a man's head; a boy assistant and a woman holding a small child look on. Watercolour painting by L.E. Zoccola, 1897.
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