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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’

I’m a painter, but I make worlds.

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Are doctors medical detectives?

Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.

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Can isolation lead to manipulation?

Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.

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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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  • The 'London Burkers': John Bishop (left), Thomas Williams (centre) and James May (right). Photograph after the 1831 original engraving.
  • Queen Mary (May of Teck) standing, wearing a tiara and holding a folded fan. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1910.
  • Queen Mary (May of Teck) standing, wearing a tiara and holding a folded fan. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1910.
  • Queen Mary (May of Teck) standing, wearing a tiara and holding a folded fan. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1910.
  • Queen Mary (May of Teck) standing, wearing a tiara and holding a folded fan. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1910.
  • A narrative of the last illness of the ... Earl of Orford: from May 1744, to the day of his decease, March the eighteenth following. With an appendix: occasioned by the Letter from a physician in town to another at Bath / [John Ranby].
  • A discourse upon prodigious abstinence: occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire demosell: proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat and drink. With an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / By John Reynolds. Humbly offered to the Royall society.
  • John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.
  • Every man his own doctor. In two parts. Shewing I. How every one may know his own constitution and complection, by certain signs. Also the nature and faculties of all food as well meats, as drinks ... The second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox ... and obstructions, agues. Shewing their causes and signs ... and perfect cure / [John Archer].
  • An easy and exact method of curing the veneral disease, in all its different appearances ... And likewise a method of curing the scurvy, gleets, whites, etc. ... with an account of its nature, causes, and symptoms: demonstrated by way of dialogue between physician and patient, for the use and instruction of all unfortunate persons who may labour under that disorder ... / [John Profily].
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