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Finding out where my lithium comes from

The origins of the lithium Laura Grace Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?

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To stop or stay on lithium

In the final part of her investigation into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins faces a dilemma – should she put her own mental health or other people and the planet first?

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My mother, and metaphors of a pandemic

A pandemic. Two members of one family, living thousands of miles apart. And months of calls and messages that helped them grow closer.

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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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  • Old Swallow Street during the demolition.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Swallow's Nest' pox
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - Swallow's nest' sore
  • Bamboo shoots with water : Swallow brand / product of The Continental Commercial Cannery Company.
  • Two gay men leaving a theatre after a play; advertising Swallow raincoats. Process print, 195-.
  • Two gay men leaving a theatre after a play; advertising Swallow raincoats. Process print, 195-.
  • Above, a Swallow Tailed Falcon, middle, a Lanner, below, a Malabar Shrike. Wood engraving after T. Bewick.
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Birds, red-rumped swallow
  • A swallow in flight. Engraving, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.
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