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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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A course of lectures, on the Theory and Practice of midwifry, by William Rowley, Surgeon, in which Every thing material to the True Knowledge and Practice of the Art will be fully explained and clearly demonstrated, by a proper Apparatus on a new Construction, so formed as in every Case to imitate real Nature. Of the Form, Structure, and Parts of the Female Pelvis. Of the Organs of Generation and the Doctrine of Conception. The Pathology and Treatment of the various Diseases of Child-Bearing Women and Children. A Comparative View of the Antient, and Modern Practice. The whole will be illustrated by such Preparations, as are useful in each Lecture; with Practical Observations and Improvements, but in particular by real Labours.
Rowley, William, 1742-1806.Date: 1780?]
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Experimentation on animals as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine / by J.C. Dalton.
Dalton, John Call, 1825-1889.Date: 1875
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Three lectures on the pathology and treatment of diabetes mellitus viewed by the light of present-day knowledge / by F.W. Pavy.
Pavy, F. W. (Frederick William), 1829-1911.Date: 1908- Books
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A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: in which, Every Thing essentially necessary to the true Knowledge of that Art will be fully explain'd, and clearly demonstrated; particularly, those Operations which are conformable to the Principles of mechanical Motion. Of the Form, Structure and constituent Parts of the Female Pelvis. Of the Organs of Generation, and the Doctrine of Conception;-The Nutrition and Situation of the Foetus in Utero, and its gradual Increase from its Rudiments to the Time of Birth. The Pathology, Treatment and Cure of the various Diseases incident to Child-Bearing Women and Infants, with the Regimen necessary to be observed, respecting the Non-Naturals, viz. Air, Diet, Motion and Rest, Sleep and Watching, Retention, Excretion and the Passions of the Mind. The Antient and Modern Manner of delivering Women in laborious and preternatural Cases compared; with a View of the Advantages and Defects of the Means proposed for that End. - For the clearer Demonstration of Operative Midwisry (whether simply by the Hand or the Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting both in natural and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn, by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines for that Purpose; constructed upon new Principles, and made to the most exact Imitation of real Women and Children. The Whole will be illustrated by such anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; together with various practical Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, And Physician Man-Midwife to the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street, in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1767
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A dissertation on the features and treatment of insanity. Containing a retrospect of the most important modern theories on the subject : and observations on the inadequacy of our present knowledge of the physiology and pathology of the brain to elucidate the phenomena of mental derangement / by John Syer.
Syer, John, 1937-2009.Date: 1827