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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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The cures and demons of sleep paralysis
Discover the murky past of sleep paralysis, the terrifying disorder once associated with demonic possession
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The Ethics of Armed Conflict : A Cosmopolitan Just War Theory / John W. Lango.
Lango, John W.Date: 2014- Books
Knowledge of bodies or bodies of knowledge? : surgeons, anatomists and rectal surgery, 1830-1985 / Lindsay Granshaw.
Granshaw, Lindsay Patricia, 1954-Date: 1992- Books
The eclipse of sexual selection theory / Simon J. Frankel.
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The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge / Jean-François Lyotard ; translation from the French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi ; foreword by Fredric Jameson.
Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998.Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
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Practical husbandry; or, the art of farming, with a certainty of gain: as practised by judicious farmers in this country. The Result of Experience and Long Observation. By Dr. John Trusler, of Cobham, Surry. In this Work is contained all the Knowledge necessary in the plain Business of Farming, unincumbered with Theory, Speculation, or Experimental Enquiry; also, a Number of Estimates of the Expences and Profits of different Crops in the common Way, taken from Minutes kept; and a Variety of useful Remarks, not to be met with in any Books of Agriculture. Together with Directions for Measuring Timber.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]