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Titans in the landscape
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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The gym of cartoon men
In men, body dysmorphia can be expressed as ‘bigorexia’ – the belief that your body is too weak and thin – or anorexia. Andrew McMillan explores two sides of the same coin.
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The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
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Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
Date: 1834Reference: 45500i- Books
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Specification of John Cash & Joseph Cash, junior : winding surgical bandages.
Cash, John.Date: 1867- Books
Pharmacopoeia Bartleiana, or, Bartlet's gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses / in two books, containing, I. the surgical; II. the medical part of practical farriery : also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses after violent exercise ... To which are now added, Mr. Clover's elegant and useful machine for securing the broken legs of horses without slinging; also, Mr. Goodall's pneumatic engine, for fumigating horses with broken wind, or bad coughs.
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772.Date: 1773- Books
An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion / [John Smeaton].
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: [1760]- Books
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An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion. By J. Smeaton, F.R.S.
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LX. [1760]