Stories
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
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The Westminster bubble. A merry tale. In a dialogue between an old bridge and a new. By a water poet.
Water Poet, active 18th century.Date: 1722- Books
La Guadina difesa : acque e salute nel Settecento salentino / Nicola Caputi ; a cura di Michele Mainardi ; prefazione di Massimo Quaini ; contributi di Alessandro Laporta, Vittorio Zacchino.
Caputi, Nicola, active 18th century.Date: 1994- Books
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The Westminster bubble. A merry tale. In a dialogue between an old bridge and a new. To which is prefixed, a short history of screening and screeners: or, seasonable advice to the electors of the city of London.
Water Poet, active 18th century.Date: 1722
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De aquis Brixianis, cum disquisitione theorematum spectantium ad acidulorum potum, et transitum in corpore animali. Examen chymico-medicum / auctore Francisco Roncallo.
Roncalli Parolino, Francesco, active 18th century.Date: MDCCXXIV [1724]- Books
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An answer to Joseph Jenks's reply to William Wilkinson's treatise, entituled, The baptism of the Holy Spirit, without elementary water, demonstratively proved to be the true Baptism of Christ, &c. By William Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, William, active 18th century.Date: 1721