Stories
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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Autism and the ache of loneliness
Explore the thoughts of an autistic loneliness researcher in this quietly expressive extract from Daniel Tammet’s book ‘Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum’.
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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Psychoanalytic books
Date: 1990-©1999- Books
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Murrels tvvo books of cookerie and carving.
Murrell, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1638- Books
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Murrels tvvo books of cookerie and carving.
Murrell, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1641- Books
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Paracelsus, his Archidoxis, or, chief teachings; comprised in ten books, disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c. Together with his books of renovation & restauration. Of the tincture of the philosophers. Of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone. Of the virtues of the members. Of the three principles. And finally his seven books, of the degrees and compositions of receipts, and natural things. Englished, by J.H. Oxon.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541Date: 1663- Books
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The vvhole art of navigation in five books ... / by Captain Daniel New-House.
Newhouse, DanielDate: 1685