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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug

Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.

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Coleridge’s hypochondria

An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.

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  • A young calf standing outside a barn. Chalk lithograph by H. Walter.
  • A young man with an ulcerated face. Lithograph after H. Holbein.
  • A young man with an ulcerated face. Lithograph after H. Holbein.
  • Young women representing poetry and drawing, with examples of sculpture, literature, music, painting, and objets d'art. Wood engraving by H. Linton after A. Lumley.
  • A young sheepdog standing in a mountainous landscape. Chalk lithograph by H. Walter.
  • A young woman repulses the attentions of a young black manservant by pinching his nose. Tinted lithograph by H. Jessen after C. Förster.
  • A young woman repulses the attentions of a young black manservant by pinching his nose. Tinted lithograph by H. Jessen after C. Förster.
  • Profile of a young man in red stripes against a blue background of white stars; representing young America. Colour lithograph after F.H.K. Henrion.
  • Profile of a young man in red stripes against a blue background of white stars; representing young America. Colour lithograph after F.H.K. Henrion.
  • A young gentleman taking snuff. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, c. 1824, after M. W. Sharp.
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