Remo Ballardini, a librarian in Riva del Garda, shows his home pharmacy’s contents: items for both treatment and prevention, including a topical antiseptic.

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Remo Ballardini, a librarian in Riva del Garda, shows his home pharmacy’s contents: items for both treatment and prevention, including a topical antiseptic.

What’s in your medicine cabinet? These people opened theirs.

The medicines we keep reveal our struggles and aspirations. A team of photographers asked people to bare their intimate health secrets.

This story appears in the January 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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