Sleep is as essential to our bodies as eating, drinking, and breathing. This month, neuroscientist Rachel Williams returns to host a sleepy tea making session at the Book Club in London exploring the history of sleep-inducing herbs and medicine. She tells us how we might add zzzs to our...
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How did surgeons in Georgian England go about amputating a leg? Which plants were found in an 18th century apothecary's shop? And what did blood-letting do to George III's fragile health...? Over the past few months, we've been busy getting to grips with leeches, smallpox,...
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