Stories
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
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Two Sikh men dueling with wooden swords. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 576527i- Books
The tale of the dueling neurosurgeons : the history of the human brain as revealed by true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery / Sam Kean.
Kean, SamDate: 2014- Books
The Sun and the moon : the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York / Matthew Goodman.
Goodman, Matthew.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
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The dueling orator delineated. In a letter to a friend, by way of appeal to truth; in answer to two uncommon letters lately received from the Rev. Mr. Henley. With proper remarks for the satisfaction of the world. By William Wood, of Christ-Church College in Oxford.
Wood, William, of Christ Church, Oxford.Date: 1726- Books
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The history of duelling. In two parts. Containing the origin, progress, revolutions, and present state of duelling in France and England. Including many curious historical anecdotes.
Coustard de Massi, Anne-Pierre, 1734-1793.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]