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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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A practical essay on the venereal disease. To which are subjoined observations on the causes and cure of tabes dorsalis. By J. Smyth, M.D.
Smyth, J. H. (J. Hamilton).Date: 1798- Books
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. By Robert Maywood, M. D. Of The Isle Of Wight.
Maywood, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A general bill of all the christenings and burials, In the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, From the 21st of December, 1786, to the 21st of December, 1787; Presented by their obedient Servant; George Goodyer, Deputy Clerk. Whereof Have Died, Under Two Years of Age - 50 Between Two and Five - 24 - Five and Ten - - 9 - Ten and Twenty - 7 - Twenty and Thirty - 17 - Thirty and Forty - 16 Between Forty and Fifty - 19 - Fifty and Sixty - 22 - Sixty and Seventy - 18 - Seventy and Eighty - 16 - Eighty and Ninety - 8 - Ninety and a Hundred - 4 In all - 210 Diseases and Casualties. Aged - - - 20 Ague - - - 3 Apoplexy - - - 2 Asthma - - - 5 Cancer - - - 1 Childbed - - - 2 Cholic - - - 4 Consumption - - 55 Convulsions - - - 18 Dropsy - - - 4 Drowned by Accident - - 2 Fever - - - 20 Fits - - - 17 Gout - - - 1 Gripes - - - 5 Hooping Cough - - 3 Inflammation - - 2 Measles - - - 5 Mortification - - - 4 Palsy - - - 3 Small Pox - - - 21 Teeth - - - 8 Thrush - - - 5 In all - 210 Abortive and Still - Born, Ten. Christened. Males - - - 90 Females - - - 77 In all - 167 Buried. Males - - - 107 Females - - - 103 In all - 210 Increased in the Baptisms, 2. - In the Burials, 30. N. B. Out of which Number of Burials, were Nine Strangers buried.
Parish of Saint Luke (Chelsea, London, England)Date: [1787]