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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 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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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A charge delivered at a meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, on Tuesday, March 3, 1789, To the Rev. A. T. Clarke, appointed, and then going, Missionary to the East-Indies, By the Rev. R. P. Finch, D.D. Prebendary of Westminster, and Treasurer to the Society. With the Rev. Mr. Clarke's reply.
Finch, Robert Pool, 1724-1803.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The works of Iohn Locke in four volumes Volume I
Locke, John, 1632-1704.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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An Analysis of Mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas, in his essay on human understanding.
Date: 1766- Books
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Reflections upon the conduct of human life: with reference to learning and knowledge. Extracted from Mr. Norris.
Norris, John, 1657-1711.Date: Printed in the year 1734- Books
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A defence of the Essay of human understanding, written by Mr. Lock. Wherein its principles with reference to morality, reveal'd religion, and the immortality of the soul, [sic] are consider'd and justify'd: in answer to some remarks on that Essay.
Trotter, Catharine, 1679-1749.Date: 1702