Stories
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
Catalogue
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Pharmaceuticals in seven nations / Robert Chew, George Teeling Smith, Nicholas Wells.
Chew, Robert C.Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
A medical topography of Tunbridge Wells; illustrating the beneficial influence of its mineral waters, climate, soil, etc., in restoring and preserving health / [Robert Hutchinson Powell].
Powell, Robert Hutchinson, 1817?-1864.Date: 1846- Books
Back, sack & crack (& brain) : a rather graphic novel / by Robert Wells.
Wells, RobertDate: 2017- Books
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Medical advice to the inhabitants of warm climates, on the domestic treatment of all the diseases incidental therein : with a few useful hints to new settlers, for the preservation of health, and the prevention of sickness / by Robert Thomas (late of Nevis) surgeon : to the work are prefixed, some observations on the proper management of new Negroes, and the general condition of slaves in the sugar colonies : also are annexed, a list of medicines recommended in the treatment of the diseases, and an explantory table of the weights used by apothecaries.
Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835.Date: MDCCXCIV [1794]- Archives and manuscripts
Birch, Robert (fl.1789)
Birch, Robert, (fl.1789)Date: 29/09/1789Reference: MS.8006/1Part of: Miscellany: British, 18th century