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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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In the Old-baily, next door to the sign of the Black-Bull, is a sweating-house for eighteen pence a time : where both men and women may be very well accomodated at convenient seasons. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for men; Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for women.
Date: [between 1680 and 1700]- Books
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The grounds of physick, containing so much of philosophy, anatomy, chimistry, and the mechanical construction of a humane body, as is necessary to the accomplishment of a physitian: with the method of practice in common distempers. Extracted from the most eminent authors both antient and modern.
Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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John Evans, his hummums is in Brownlow-Street in Drury-Lane, where persons may sweat to what degree they please : there being degrees of heat, and several appartments, fit and commodious for private sweating, bathing, and fine cupping.
Evans, John, quackDate: [after 1679]- Books
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The rudiments of physick clearly and accurately describ'd and explain'd, in the most easy and familiar Manner, by Way of Dialogue between a Physician and his Pupil. Under the following heads, viz. I. Physiology: Or, The Nature and Principles of Physick in general. II. Hygiena: Which treats of Health, and discovers proper Means, and Remedies, for the Preservation of it. III. Pathology: Which considers the Diseases of the Body and Mind; their Causes, Nature, Symptoms, &c. IV. Semeiotica: Which treats of the Signs and Indications of Health and Disease. V. Therapeuticks: Which is employ'd in finding out Remedies for Diseases; and the Method of applying them to perfect a Cure. To which are added, some methods of cure in most diseases, both Acute and Chronical, according to the Practice of Dr. Pitcairn, Boerhaave; Mead, and others. First collected from the instructions of a celebrated professor of medicine in the Royal Academy of Paris: and since improv'd from the best authors, Ancient and Modern; by John Groenvelt, M.D. Now first translated from the Latin, revised, and corrected in the most accurate manner.
Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?.Date: [1753?]- Books
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Instant relief to the asthmatic, or those afflicted with shortness of breath; being an essay on the nature of the lungs and their several disorders, and the only possible and certain means of cure proposed and demonstrated. With the places of sale of the remedy. From a ms. of the late Dr. Lucas.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]