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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations

Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.

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Acid and the sexual psychonauts

How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.

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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.

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  • Bynin-Amara : "a distinct advance on Easton's Syrup." The Lancet : August 1910.
  • Bynin-Amara : analogous to Eastons Syrup but much easier of assimilation : July 1908.
  • Bynin-Amara : "a distinct advance on Easton's Syrup." The Lancet : March 1910.
  • Bynin-Amara : analogous to Eastons Syrup but much easier of assimilation : March 1909.
  • Bynin-Amara : analogous to Easton's Syrup, but much easier of assimilation : March 1905.
  • Byno-Hypophosphites : an ideal tonic in nervous prostration and overstrain : May 1908.
  • Bynin-Amara : analogous to Easton's Syrup, but much easier of assimilation : March 1905.
  • 'Byno' Hypophosphites : "one of the most popular tonics of the day." B.M.J. : August 1913.
  • Bynin-Amara : analogous to Easton's Syrup, but much easier of assimilation : July 1905.
  • 'Byno' Hypophosphites : 'one of the most popular tonics of the day.' B.M.J. : August 1911.
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