Stories
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Maladaptive daydreaming, gender myths and me
Can you daydream too much? Excessive daydreamer Laura Grace Simpkins reflects on studies into “maladaptive daydreaming” and asks why so few fellow dreamers seem to be men.
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
Catalogue
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Iulii Caesaris Claudini medici & philosophi Bononiensis & publici medicinae practicae professoris ordinarii Tractatus de crisibus et diebus criticis : In quo cùm de caeteris omnibus, quae ad horum pertinent cognitionem, tùm de causis praecipuè, accuratè juxtà, & ordine disseritur. Cum indice rerum & verborum memorabili.
Claudini, Giulio Cesare, approximately 1550-1618.Date: 1620- Books
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Prosper Alpini ... De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium libri septem. In quibus ars tota Hippocratica praedicendi in aegrotis varios morborum eventus quum ex veterum medicorum dogmatis, tum ex longa accurataque observatione, nova methodo elucescit / Cum praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave post editionem alteram Leidensem, cujus textum recensuit, passim emendavit, supplevit, cittata Hippocratis loca accuravit, Hieron. Dav. Gaubius. Cum capitum & rerum duplici indice. Accedit Hieronimi Fracastorii de diebus criticis libello.
Alpini, Prosper, 1553-1617.Date: 1735- Books
The Prognostics and Crises of Hippocrates / translated from the Greek; with critical and explanatory notes. By Henry William Ducachet, M.D.
Hippocrates.Date: 1819- Books
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The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates; translated from the original Greek: with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates / by John Moffat, M.D.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
Hippocratis Coi Prognosticon liber, donatus versibus. / A Francisco Du Port.
Hippocrates.Date: 1598