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Writing back to authority
As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Daniel Regan on using photography to manage emotions
Artist Daniel Regan manages his emotions and stays grounded through photography, allowing him to engage in the world around him.
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A rational practice of chyrurgery, or, Chyrurgical observations resolved according to the solid fundamentals of true philosophy / by John Muys : in five decades.
Muys, John, 1654-Date: 1686- Books
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Praxis medicorum antiqua & nova : the ancient and modern practice of physick examined, stated, and compared, the preparation and custody of medicines as it was the primitive custom with the princes and great patrons of physick asserted and proved to be the proper charge and grand duty and every physician successively, the new mode of prescribing and filing recipe's with apothecaries manifested an imprudent invention and pernicious innovation, demonstrated from the treble damage and disadvantages that arise thence to physician, patient and the medical science : with enforcing arguments for a return and general conformity to the primitive practice ... / by E. Maynwaring.
Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?Date: 1671- Books
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Some observations made upon the serpent stones imported from India : shewing their admirable virtues in curing malignant spotted feavers / written by a countrey physitian to Dr. Burwell, president of the Colledge of Physitians in London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: 1694- Books
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Some observations made upon the root caled casmunar imported from the East-Indies : shewing its nature and vertues above any other as yet written of in curing apoplexies, convulsions, palsies, lethargies, tremblings, fitts of the mother, giddiness in the head, and all distempers of the brain and nerves / published by a doctor of physick in Glocester-shire.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: 1693- Books
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Some observations made upon the Barbado seeds : shewing their admirable virtue in curing dropsies / written by a physitian in the countrey to Sir George Ent at London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: 1694