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Do dark forces affect people's health?
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Exercising for pelvic flexibility in the 1930s
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Happier mothers and healthier babies
1970s health education drama about an overweight man
18th century watercolour
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Packaging for drug showing an astronaut in space
Early visualisation of the famous double helix
Aztec depiction of religious sacrifice
Showing the connections between heart and brain
Scare-devil from the Nicobar Islands
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Colour enhancement of a scanning electron micrograph image
Death at the nursery window
Early 19th century etching by Thomas Rowlandson
The healing power of amulets
The Museum of London's Hedley Swain
Mauro Perucchetti's chemical clone
Interactive showing the life cycle of the malaria parasite
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Site of the meat market and 12th Century priory hospital
Thomas Coram’s home for abandoned children
Carpet produced for the Festival of Britain
Modelling microbes without the colours of fear
Poster giving advice on pregnancy and birth
A professional midwife talks about how we tell babies apart
Vicki Swinden discusses weight and self-image
Genetically engineered for research
1960s film about childhood obesity
Scanning electron micrograph image of a blood clot
Injecting fluid from an infected cow into a human being
Tibetan drawing of the Lord of Death
Nobel Prize winner Sulston discusses his work