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| Author: | J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen |
| Category: | Prophetic Medicine, Legal Ruqyah, And Spiritual Medicine [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Pages: | 665 |
| File Size: | 3.14 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 20 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 829,857 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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The Author Book Curiosities of Medical Experience and the author of 3 another books.
Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon), 1782-1862
Author: Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon), 1782-1862
LoC No.: 34037216
Title: Curiosities of Medical Experience
Contents: Obesity -- Dwarfs -- Gigantic races -- Unlawful cures -- Voice and speech -- Ecstatic exaltation -- Varieties of mankind -- On the inhumation of the dead in cities -- Buried alive -- Spontaneous combustion -- Brassica eruca -- Cagliostro -- Lunar influence on human life and diseases -- Spectacles -- Leeches -- Somnambulism -- Medical powers of music -- The food of mankind -- Influence of imagination -- Ancient ideas of phrenology -- Perfumes -- Love philters and potions -- Ventriloquism -- Chaucer's description of a physician -- Dæmonomania -- The plague -- Abstinence -- Poison of the upas, or ipo -- Homophagous and polyphagous -- Causes of insanity -- Leprosy -- The aspic -- Selden's comparison between a divine, a statesman, and a physician -- The lettuce -- Medical fees -- Enthusiasm -- Medical effects of water -- Proverbs and sayings regarding health and disease -- The night-mare -- Incubation of diseases -- Quackery and charlatanism -- On the use of tea -- Mandragore -- Barber-surgeons, and the progress of chirurgical art -- On dreams -- On flagellation -- On life and the blood -- Of the homoeopathic doctrines -- Doctrine of signatures -- Coffee -- Aqua tophania -- Plica polonica & human hair -- Animal magnetism -- Poisonous fishes -- Memory & the mental faculties -- Affections of the sight -- Hellebore -- Sympathies and antipathies -- The Archeus of Van Helmont -- Monsters -- Longevity -- Cretinism -- Temperaments -- Solar influence -- Sweating fever -- Smallpox -- Drunkenness -- Decapitation -- Mummies -- Hydrophobia -- Rise and progress of medicine -- Medicine of the Chinese -- Experiments on living animals.
Language: English
LoC Class: R: Medicine
Subject: Medicine
Release Date: Mar 7, 2012
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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