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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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Drug sharing in desperate times

When Nicole was threatened with deportation, her mental health deteriorated. Now without a job, a passport or a doctor, she depends on others to send her their leftover anxiety drugs.

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“Disability is never an individual diagnosis”

As a 35-year-old man, I am sure that my fear of getting old is not uncommon. But for me, that fear goes deeper. I have spina bifida.

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How to play in secret

In secret games the strangers around you are playing too. They just don’t know it. Read on for some great ideas for undercover fun at work, school – or almost anywhere.

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  • Certaine workes of Galens, called Methodus medendi, with a briefe declaration of the worthie art of medicine, the office of a chirurgion, and an epitome of the third booke of Galen, of naturall faculties / all translated into English, by Thomas Gale.
  • A prognostication everlasting of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for ever, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne ... / corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.
  • A man with an extra large head exhales smoke from an enormous cigar. Coloured lithograph, c. 1880, after T. Worth.
  • The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • Plan of the Surrey Dispensary, in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for administering advice and medicines to the poor inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, and places adjacent, at the dispensary, or at their own habitations. Instituted in the year 1777.
  • Plan of the Surrey Dispensary, in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for administering advice and medicines to the poor inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, and places adjacent, at the dispensary, or at their own habitations. Instituted in the year 1777.
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