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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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The first seizure
Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.
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The three grand queries resolved. Shewing the great iniquity and injustice in any one Prince, that attempts by war, blood and rapine, to be sole lord paramont, ... By a gentleman learned in divinity, law and history.
Gentleman learned in divinity, law and history.Date: 1707- Books
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An oration by Mr. Peter Burman against the studies of humanity. Shewing, that the learned languages, history, eloquence and critick, are not only useless, but also dangerous to the studies of law, physick, philosophy, and above all of divinity; to which last Poetry is a special help. Translated into English, and the original annext.
Burman, Pieter, 1668-1741.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]
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Schola medicinae, or, the new universal history and school of medicine / translated into English from the original Latin and Greek edition, by William Rowley, M.D. ... Containing, I. The history of medicine from the creation of the world to the present period, with the errors of medical sects, systems, and hypotheses. II. The anatomy of the human body, illustrated by sixty-eight copper plates, with parallel descriptions in single opposite pages. III. Physiology, or the animal, vital, and natural functions of man in health, and how they are performed and preserved. IV. Pathology, or the science of diseases, causes, symptoms, effects, on death and putrefaction, &c. The whole arranged in a new mode to facilitate the study of medicine, with the latest discoveries; intended for the contemplation of the studious in the learned professions of medicine, law, divinity, and for all who wish to comprehend the science of man.
Rowley, William, 1742-1806.Date: 1803- Books
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A catalogue of books. In divinity, history, law, physick, mathematicks, poetry, classicks, &c. Being ... Libraries; the one of a young Clergyman, lately deceas'd; and the other of a Gentleman To be sold very cheap, the lowest Prices being incerted in the Catalogue; at the sign of the Feathers in Wheeler-Gate, Nottingham. The Sale to begin on Monday the 22d of August 1743, exactly at 8 of the Clock in the Morning, and none to be sold out of the Catalogue before that Time; but may be viewed 3 Days before the Sale begins, The Sale to continue 8 Days and no longer: And after that time none to be sold but at an advanc'd Price. N. B. Most of the Books in this Catalogue are an clean as new; exceeding well bound; and many of them gilt and letter'd; if otherwise the Condition, with the Imperfections is express'd in the Catalogue, that Gentleman at a distance, may send Commissions and not be deceiv'd. Catalogues to be had (gratis) a [sic] the place of sale, and at M. Unwin's in Leicester.
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A new general English dictionary; peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. Wherein the difficult words, and technical terms made use of in anatomy, architecture, arithmetick, algebra, astronomy, botany, chymistry, divinity, gardening, grammar, hawking, heraldry, history, horsemanship, hunting, husbandry, law, logick, mathematicks, mechanicks, milit. affairs, musick, navigation, painting, poetry, rhetorick, sculpture, surgery, &c. are not only fully explained, but accented on their proper syllables, to prevent a vicious pronunciation; and marked with initial letters, to denote the part of speech to which each word peculiarly belongs. To which is prefixed, A compendious English grammar, with general rules for the ready formation of one part of speech from another; by the due application whereof, such as understand English only, may be able to write as correctly and elegantly as those who have been some years conversant in the Latin, Greek, and other languages. Together with a supplement of the proper names of the most noted kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, rivers, &c. throughout the known world. As also of the most celebrated emperors, kings, queens, priests, poets, philosophers, generals, &c. whether Jewish, pagan, Mahometan, or Christian; but more especially such as are mentioned either in the Old or New Testament. The whole alphabetically digested, and accented in the same manner, and for the same purpose, at the preceding part; being collected for the use of such as have but an imperfect idea of the English orthography.
Dyche, Thomas, -approximately 1733.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]