Stories
- Article
The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
- Books
Before Galileo : the birth of modern science in medieval Europe / John Freely.
Freely, John.Date: 2012- Books
Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely.
Freely, John.Date: 2009- Books
Light from the east : how the science of medieval Islam helped to shape the western world / John Freely.
Freely, John.Date: 2011- Books
The flame of Miletus : the birth of science in ancient Greece (and how it changed the world) / John Freely.
Freely, John.Date: 2012- Books
- Online
The oeconomy of the sexes. Or the doctrine of divorce, the Plurality of Wives, and the vow of celebacy Freely examined. The mistakes of some celebrated protestant writers laid open: and A more consistent view taken of the operation of the matrimonial law, in the sense both of the Jew and of the Christian law-giver. With observations moral and political.
Fleming, Caleb, 1698-1779.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]