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What does your wee say about your health? Well, plenty – but perhaps not in quite the way medieval physicians understood it. Before the in-depth study of anatomy and physiology, establishing the cause

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A Flushing is a symptom – so treatment will depend on what’s causing it. Sadly, most women of a certain age have gone through the hot flushes of menopause – often accompanied by night sweats, vaginal

The full name for Botox is botulinum toxin – that’s right, it’s a toxin. It’s produced by the bacteria which causes botulism. A century ago, in the first recorded outbreak of botulism, eight people di

Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg

On the morning of Sunday, 3 September 1916, farm bailiff Charles Lewis set out across the fields at Abbott’s Hall near the village of Horsley Cross, in rural Essex, to check on the wheat crop. He took