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How to thrive in lockdown
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Regimen sanitatis Salerni : This boke techyng al people to gouerne them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englishe by Thomas Paynell. Whiche boke is as profitable [et] as nedefull to be had and redde as any can be to obserue corporall helthe.
Joannes, de MediolanoDate: 1528- Books
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Regimen sanitatis Salerni : This boke techynge all people to gouerne them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tounge in to englishe by Thomas Paynell· Whiche boke is amended, augmented, and dilgently imprinted.
Joannes, de MediolanoDate: [Anno domini. 1530. mense Februarii]- Books
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Via recta ad vitam longam, or A plaine philosophical discourse of the nature, faculties, and effects, of all such things, as by way of nourishments, and dieteticall obseruations, make for the preseruation of health : with their iust applications vnto euery age, constitution of bodie, and time of yeare. Wherein also, by way of introduction, the nature and choice of habitable places, with the true vse of our famous bathes of Bathe is perspicuously demonstrated. By To: Venner, Doctor of Physicke, at Bathe in the spring, and fall, and at other times in the burrough of North-Petherton neere to the ancient hauen-towne of Bridgewater in Somerset-shire.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1620- Books
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A compendyous regyment or a dyetary of healthe : made in Mountpyllyer, by Andrewe Boorde of physycke doctour, newly corrected and imprynted with dyuers addycyons dedycated to the armypotent Prynce and valyent Lorde Thomas Duke of Northfolke.
Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549Date: [In the yere of our Lorde god. M. CCCCC. LXVII. [1567 i.e. 1547]]- Books
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Regimen sanitatis Salerni : The schoole of Salernes most learned and iuditious directorie, or methodicall instructions, for the guide and gouerning the health of man. Dedicated, and sent by them, to the high and mighty King of England, and published (by consent of learned and skilfull physitions) for the good and benefite of all in generall. Perused, and corrected from many great and grosse imperfections, committed in former impressions: with the comment, and all the Latine verses reduced into English, and ordered in their apt and due places.
Joannes, de MediolanoDate: 1617