Stories
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Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Article
Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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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.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
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Air, light and sun baths in the treatment of chronic complaints / translated from the French by Fred Rothwell.
Monteuuis, A. (Albert), 1861-Date: 1907- Ephemera
Wigglesworth Golden Tan sun screen cream : brown as berries yet not burned : 2/5 large size tube.
Wigglesworth (Firm)Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Pictures
A man and a woman sunbathing. Photograph by Pictorial Press, 195-.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]Reference: 2822673i
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Children doing outdoor exercises at the Mont Alto Sanatorium for tuberculosis, Pennsylvania: the children are stripped to the waist and some show the effects of heliotherapy on their skin. Photograph, 1920/1940?.
Date: [1920/1940?]Reference: 582393i- Books
Your daily sun bath.
Health-Ray Company.Date: [1936?]