Stories
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The tale of the toxic kidneys
In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.
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Active pensioners, blooming gardens
To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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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.
Catalogue
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An account of the four late judgements, and how we are humbled by them / [Richard Younge].
Younge, RichardDate: 1667- Books
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Sinne stigmatizd: or, The art to know savingly, believe rightly, live religiously : taught both by similitude and contrariety from a serious scrutiny or survey of the profound humanist, cunning polititian, cauterized drunkard, experimentall Christian: wherein the beauties of all Christian graces are illustrated by the blacknesse of their opposite vices. Also, that enmity which God proclaimed in Paradise betweene the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the woman, unvailed and anatomized. Whereunto is annexed, compleat armor against evill society ... By R. Junius.
Younge, RichardDate: 1639- Books
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The spectroscope and its work / [Richard A. Proctor].
Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888.Date: 1877- Pictures
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Richard Temple. Mezzotint by J. Young, 1802, after W. Owen.
Owen, William, 1769-1825.Date: 1802Reference: 9106i- Books
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The right rule of Christian chastitie : profitable to bee read of all godly and vertuous youthes of both sexe, bee they gentlemen or gentlewomen, or of inferiour state, whatsoeuer. Collected and written by one studious to gratifie his freendes, and profit his kindred: first (priuately) for the instruction, forewarning and forearming of certayne younge gentlewomen his neare and deare cosins: and after published by the same, in hope to profit the Church & common wealth, according to his talent. The methode wherof is to bee seene immediatly after the preface to the reader.
Hergest, WilliamDate: [1580]