Stories
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Doctor in the house
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist
Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.
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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.
Catalogue
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A letter from a physician in town to another at Bath. Concerning the case of the Right Honourable the late Earl of Orford / [Physician in town].
Physician in town, active 1745.Date: 1745- Books
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The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.
Harvey, William, 1578-1657.Date: 1653- Books
Town and state physicians in Switzerland (16th-18th centuries) / Huldrych M. Koelbing.
Koelbing, Huldrych MDate: 1981- Books
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An essay on the inspection of the urine; Shewing the impossibility of being acquainted with the diseases incident to the human body, by the inspection only. By a Physician.
Mayers, Theodor von.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
Continuity or rediscovery? : the city physician in classical antiquity and mediaeval Italy / Vivian Nutton.
Nutton, VivianDate: 1981