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Sweat

Oh, the sweet smell of sweat! So pure and yet so full of skin bacteria dissolving in watery secretions.

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Devilry and doom in 1666

Disastrous events and a significant combination of numbers signalled the end – or perhaps a new beginning – in 1666. But for some, this feverish period fuelled unprecedented inventiveness and development.

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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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Gym

You run, you lift, you sweat, you gym. You are a human generator.

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  • Bioengineered sweat gland, conceptual artwork
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Spiral sweat ducts in skin on the sole of a foot
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A boke, or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate, or sweatying sicknesse. Very necessary for everye personne, and muche requisite to be had in the handes of al sortes, for their better instruction, preparacion and defence, against the soubdein comyng, and fearful assaultying of the same disease / [John Caius].
  • A boke, or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate, or sweatying sicknesse. Very necessary for everye personne, and muche requisite to be had in the handes of al sortes, for their better instruction, preparacion and defence, against the soubdein comyng, and fearful assaultying of the same disease / [John Caius].
  • A boke, or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate, or sweatying sicknesse. Very necessary for everye personne, and muche requisite to be had in the handes of al sortes, for their better instruction, preparacion and defence, against the soubdein comyng, and fearful assaultying of the same disease / [John Caius].
  • A brown mare pulling a cart with a jockey in a blue sweater. Coloured lithograph.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Sweating, emesis and purgation
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