Lions and tigers and snakes!

This woman is literally throwing her medicine at the metaphorical beasts of chest infection.

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Madame Ruppert’s beauty secrets

In the 19th century beauty could be a dangerous business.

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Beat diabetes!

World Health Day is all about diabetes this year. For an historical perspective, take a look at some of our digitised books.

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Rick Stroud (The Book of the Moon) introduces three writers from different fields to talk about their working methods and the consequences of chance: the scientist Susan Greenfield (Mind Change; The Private Life of the Brain), the surgeon and professor of surgical education Roger Kneebone and the historian and biographer Jenny Uglow (In These Times; The Lunar Men; Elizabeth Gaskell).