Stories
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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The psychology of Ouija
Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.
- Prose poem
Intrinsic Evanescence
Will Alexander on the poetry of the rarefied atmosphere of a friendship.
![Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0001515/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0005875/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0001516/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0002367/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/M0008990/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0006174/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0001514/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Medicinische, chirurgische und antomische Schrifften, samt beygefügten schönen Bericht von der Pest / und eigenen wie auch D. Joh. Frider. Deckers nothwendigen Anmerckungen, nach den heutigen neuen Erfindungen in der Anatomie und Circulation des Geblütes eingerichtet, und mit Zusatz vieler heilsamen Artzney-Mittel aus D. Joh. Jacob Magnets [sic] und anderer hocherfahrnen Autoren ... zum drittenmahl vermehret ... herausgegeben.
Barbette, Paul, -1666?Date: 1692
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Specification of Thomas Welton : magnets for curative purposes.
Welton, T. (Thomas)Date: 1876
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Improvements in therapeutic magnets / [Thomas Hammill Hicks].
Hicks, Thomas Hammill.Date: 1890
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A man is violently rubbed with magnets. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894.Date: [c. 1843]Reference: 16548iPart of: Les malades et les médecins- Books
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A method of making artificial magnets without the use of natural ones. Communicated to the Royal Society by John Canton, M.A. and Fellow of the said Society.
Canton, John, 1718-1772.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LI. [1751]