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6 entries match Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01] · Arts, Literature & Humanities [K01.090] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]

1803 CE

#13026

A poetical petition against tractorising trumpery and the Perkinistic institution: In four cantos. Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians.

This medical satire in doggerel verse, which was ostensibly an attack on Perkins' metallic tractors, or "Perkinism" was actually written in support of them. The work was best known for its second and greatly expanded …

2007 CE

#11171

Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.

1699 CE

#7965

The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos.

An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.

1976 CE

#7519

The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.

1772 CE

#154

Von der Physiognomik.

Lavater was the last of the descriptive physiognomists. He expanded the above work into Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe, 1775-78. This was translated into English …

2007 CE

#13645

Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.