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Charts begin as inventories of what is known.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/personal-map-of-contributors-b2-960.jpgThe spine and the nerves that run from it, engraving after a dissection.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/personal-map-of-contributors-hero-1040.jpgA compass rose from a mariner’s chart: start by knowing where you are.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/how-habits-hold/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-habits-hold-b1-960.jpgA printed calendar, half a year to a sheet. Small plans fit on a page.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-habits-hold-b2-960.jpgA universal sundial with its compass, engraving, c. 1861.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-habits-hold-hero-1040.jpgOne flight at a time: climbing the Eiffel Tower by its stairs, 1889.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/give-sleep-the-standing-it-deserves/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/give-sleep-the-standing-it-deserves-b1-960.jpg“The Sleepy Congregation” (after Hogarth): tired is nothing new.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/give-sleep-the-standing-it-deserves-b2-960.jpgFishermen setting out by the light of the moon, engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/give-sleep-the-standing-it-deserves-hero-1040.jpgThe head and paws of a sleeping lion, lithograph.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/when-to-ask-about-sleep-apnea-evaluation/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/when-to-ask-about-sleep-apnea-evaluation-b1-960.jpgThe larynx and other organs of the neck, lithograph, 1841.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/when-to-ask-about-sleep-apnea-evaluation-b2-960.jpgParts of the jaw, tongue and larynx, line engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/when-to-ask-about-sleep-apnea-evaluation-hero-1040.jpgA convalescent fails to rouse her sleeping nurse, coloured etching after Thomas Rowlandson. Sleep has been a subject of satire for centuries.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/walking-still-counts/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/walking-still-counts-b1-960.jpgAn alternative pavement raised above the street for women pushing prams, wood engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/walking-still-counts-b2-960.jpgRoad to Rangoon, coloured aquatint by William Daniell.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/walking-still-counts-hero-1040.jpgA pedestrian of the early 1800s, striding out. Coloured line engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/muscle-after-fifty-strength-work/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/muscle-after-fifty-strength-work-b1-960.jpgThe muscles of the body, front view, engraved after Albinus.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/muscle-after-fifty-strength-work-b2-960.jpgMen from the Aldershot Gymnasium on the parallel bar, process print, 1895.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/muscle-after-fifty-strength-work-hero-1040.jpgA page of gymnastic and physical exercises, photolithograph.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/eating-you-can-live-with/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/eating-you-can-live-with-b1-960.jpgA large covered market with stalls of fruit and vegetables, Newcastle upon Tyne.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/eating-you-can-live-with-b2-960.jpgA vegetable farmer with his donkey loaded with produce, coloured print.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/eating-you-can-live-with-hero-1040.jpgMarché des Innocents, Paris: stalls of fruit and vegetables beside the fountain.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/protein-without-one-rule/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/protein-without-one-rule-b1-960.jpgTwo sections of a diseased kidney, coloured aquatint made for Richard Bright, 1827.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/protein-without-one-rule-b2-960.jpgFish, eels, shellfish and crustaceans laid out in a still life, etching.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/protein-without-one-rule-hero-1040.jpgA bean plant in flower and fruit, with separate pod and seed. Coloured drawing.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/stress-is-a-contributor/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/stress-is-a-contributor-b1-960.jpgAn anxious mother checks on her sleeping child, coloured lithograph.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/stress-is-a-contributor-b2-960.jpgA pulse is taken while courtiers gather round, line engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/stress-is-a-contributor-hero-1040.jpgA storm at sea, etching. Stress is weather, not a character flaw.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/when-a-study-is-not-yet-proof/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/when-a-study-is-not-yet-proof-b1-960.jpgTwo long-tailed field mice, etching. Animal studies come before human trials.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/when-a-study-is-not-yet-proof-b2-960.jpgMicroscope drawings of plant anatomy: cells and growing points, lithograph.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/when-a-study-is-not-yet-proof-hero-1040.jpgFour kinds of microscope, engraving, 1787.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/how-to-weigh-a-supplement-claim/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-weigh-a-supplement-claim-b1-960.jpgA nineteenth-century handbill: confident claims are not new.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-weigh-a-supplement-claim-b2-960.jpgTwenty trees, herbs and shrubs, chromolithograph, c. 1850.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-weigh-a-supplement-claim-b3-960.jpgA quack who promises a cure in the three minutes before the train leaves, process print after Abel Faivre, 1902.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-weigh-a-supplement-claim-hero-1040.jpgA shelf of bottles and dried herbs: the old apothecary’s tools.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/numbers-on-a-lab-report/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/numbers-on-a-lab-report-b1-960.jpgStein’s adaptation of Marey’s sphygmograph for recording the pulse, process print after a wood engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/numbers-on-a-lab-report-b2-960.jpgBlood cells drawn from a bird, ink and crayon, c. 1906.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/numbers-on-a-lab-report-hero-1040.jpgThe anatomy of the heart, engraving, 1686.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/what-is-worth-tracking/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/what-is-worth-tracking-b1-960.jpgThe mechanism of a pocket watch, coloured engraving, 1810.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/what-is-worth-tracking-b2-960.jpgA physician takes a lady’s pulse, oil painting after Frans van Mieris.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/what-is-worth-tracking-hero-1040.jpgA domestic weather station: thermometer, barometer and hygrometer on one board.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/how-to-read-a-peptide-certificate-of-analysis-without-fooling-yourself/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-read-a-peptide-certificate-of-analysis-without-fooling-yourself-b1-960.jpgA balance, a still and a casting: three ways of measuring, engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-read-a-peptide-certificate-of-analysis-without-fooling-yourself-b2-960.jpgCrystals viewed in polarised light, colour mezzotint. Each method sees only some things.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-read-a-peptide-certificate-of-analysis-without-fooling-yourself-b3-960.jpgChemical apparatus of glass and metal, coloured engraving, 1801.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/how-to-read-a-peptide-certificate-of-analysis-without-fooling-yourself-hero-1040.jpgChemical apparatus in use on a table, with the balance at the centre. Engraving, 1700s.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/peptide-access-what-policy-changes-do-not-mean/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/peptide-access-what-policy-changes-do-not-mean-b1-960.jpgLaw, medicine and theology each claim the last word, engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/peptide-access-what-policy-changes-do-not-mean-b2-960.jpgAn itinerant medicine vendor sells a remedy to a worried father, engraving after Maggiotto.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/peptide-access-what-policy-changes-do-not-mean-b3-960.jpgA quack selling medicines in the market square, oil painting.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/peptide-access-what-policy-changes-do-not-mean-hero-1040.jpgJustice with sword and scales, etching, 1600s.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/preventive-care-without-giving-away-judgment/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/preventive-care-without-giving-away-judgment-b1-960.jpgA calendar for 1849, engraving. Screening belongs on the calendar too.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/preventive-care-without-giving-away-judgment-b2-960.jpgA physician takes a pulse, oil painting after Jan Steen.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/preventive-care-without-giving-away-judgment-hero-1040.jpgTwo ladies visiting a doctor, wood engraving after George Du Maurier, 1892.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/semaglutide-heart-and-kidney-outcomes/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/semaglutide-heart-and-kidney-outcomes-b1-960.jpgThe circulatory system, watercolour diagram.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/semaglutide-heart-and-kidney-outcomes-b2-960.jpgThe liver and the kidneys, engraving, 1686.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/semaglutide-heart-and-kidney-outcomes-hero-1040.jpgThe human heart, four figures, engraving by T. Milton, 1814.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/glp1-longevity-interest-versus-evidence/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/glp1-longevity-interest-versus-evidence-b1-960.jpgA young man drinks an elixir of life in an alchemist’s workshop, wood engraving by H. K. Browne (“Phiz”), 1865.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/glp1-longevity-interest-versus-evidence-b2-960.jpgThe arts of Minerva against the power of Time, title page, engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/glp1-longevity-interest-versus-evidence-hero-1040.jpgCrowds of the old and infirm arrive at the fountain of youth. Engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/if-someone-is-using-a-glp1-for-the-long-haul/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/if-someone-is-using-a-glp1-for-the-long-haul-b1-960.jpgMuscles of the head, trunk and thigh, engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/if-someone-is-using-a-glp1-for-the-long-haul-b2-960.jpgFive aged doctors in consultation, coloured stipple engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/if-someone-is-using-a-glp1-for-the-long-haul-hero-1040.jpgA long climb: travellers on the Mont Blanc route, wood engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/articles/opinion-ibuprofen-father-in-law-friend-hearing/https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/opinion-ibuprofen-father-in-law-friend-hearing-b1-960.jpgWillow catkins, chromolithograph, c. 1855: willow bark is the old source of salicylate remedies.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/opinion-ibuprofen-father-in-law-friend-hearing-b2-960.jpgThe inner ear, thirteen figures, engraving.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/opinion-ibuprofen-father-in-law-friend-hearing-b3-960.jpgCannabis sativa, a botanical plate from Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen.https://deepersymptom.com/assets/photos/opinion-ibuprofen-father-in-law-friend-hearing-hero-1040.jpgThe anatomy of the ear, engraving, 1686.