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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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The seizure dog

Aparna Nair's dog Charlie made her feel safe in the world. His uncanny ability to sense when she was about to experience a seizure also gave her an unexpected ally in her struggles with epilepsy.

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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test

The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.

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  • Three old veterans, two sitting, one standing. Pencil drawing.
  • A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.
  • Veterans watching and participating in a game of bowls. Lithograph by A. Collette, 1853, after E. de Frenne.
  • Two drunken war veterans staggering along arm-in-arm. Coloured lithograph by E. Purcell.
  • Boer War: a group of wounded war veterans at the docks in England. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph.
  • Two uniformed war veterans with a young soldier by a statue in the Siegesallee, Berlin. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • Two uniformed war veterans with a young soldier by a statue in the Siegesallee, Berlin. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • A veteran French soldier or sailor. Photogravure by Goupil & Cie., 1873, after M. Fortuny y Marsal, 1869.
  • The statue of Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place, Westminster, with a veteran of the Crimean War and children. Drawing by John Byam Shaw.
  • A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.
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