Stories
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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A new edition of the royal Kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1772; Including a compleat and correct List of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first Session on the 10th of May, 1768; and from thence continued by Prorogations to the 13th of November 1770, when they sat for the Dispatch of Public Business. Upon a new and more extensive Plan than any hitherto offored to the Public: containing, England. I. Complete and correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament; all the State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the Peers, Baronets, State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, Universities, Physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament, a complete List of the Baronets, all the Law, State, Revenue, and Public Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. America. IV. The Military and Civil Establishments; Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, Agents, &c. And Corrected at the Respective Offices.
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The royal Kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1772; Including a compleat and correct List of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first Session on the 10th of May, 1768; and from thence continued by Prorogations to the 13th of November 1770, when they sat for the Dispatch of Public Business. Upon on a new and more extensive Plan than any hitherto offered to the Public: containing, England. I. Complete and correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament; all the State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the Peers, Baronets, State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, Universities, Physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament, a complete List of the Baronets, all the Law, State, Revenue, and Public Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. America. IV. The Military and Civil Establishments; Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, Agents, &c. And Corrected at the Respective Offices.
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A catalogue of the genuine collection of coins and medals, various antiquities, fossils, and other curiosities, Together with The remaining Copper-Plates, some Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Of the late Revd. and Learned William Stuckeley, M.D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, Deceased; Which will be sold by Auction, By Samuel Paterson, At Essex House in Essex Street, in the Strand, On Thursday and Friday, the 15th and 16th of May, 1766; To begin each Day exactly at Twelve O'Clock. To be viewed on Tuesday the 13th Instant, and to the Time of Sale. Catalogues may be had gratis at Essex House aforesaid.
Paterson, Samuel, 1728-1802.Date: 1766]- Books
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Report from the committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty, during his illness, touching the present state of His Majesty's health. Ordered to be printed 13th January 1789.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1789]- Books
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Report from the committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty, during his illness, touching the present state of His Majesty's health. Ordered to be printed 13th January 1789.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: [1789]