Stories
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
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Hyperfocus and hobbies
Alex Chan talks about the power of ADHD-associated hyperfocus and how they’ve become wary of feeding it too often.
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
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A body apart from the head
We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.
Catalogue
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"Swords into ploughshares" : recycling in pre-industrial England / by Donald Woodward.
Woodward, Donald.Date: 1985- Books
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Swords into anchors. A comedy. Written by the Author of the Beau Merchant.
Blanch, John, 1649 or 1650-Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Archives and manuscripts
Swords and Ploughshares: a presentation by Engineers for Nuclear Disarmament
Date: 1994Reference: SA/MED/N/14Part of: Medact
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A plea for a church hospital in the city of New-York : in two lectures, delivered in the Church of the Holy Communion, St. Paul's Church, New-York, and St. John's Church, Brooklyn / by W.A. Muhlenberg ; with an appendix, containing the constitution, &c. of St. Luke's Hospital.
Muhlenberg, William Augustus, 1796-1877.Date: 1850- Books
The American medical lexicon, on the plan of Quincy's Lexicon physico-medicum, with many retrenchments, additions, and improvements; comprising an explanation of the etymology and signification of the terms used in anatomy, physiology, surgery, materia medica, chemistry, and the practice of physic / Compiled from the most approved authorities.
Quincy, John, -1722.Date: 1811