History
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Fong M.D., Kevin

November 2011: Me diving in the Red Sea using a vintage scuba rig of the type first seen in the 1950s. (© Michael Pitts) WATER Brace! Brace! Brace!” he shouts, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...
( Category: Microbiology November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Blum

“BETWEEN THE DEATHS and apparitions of the dying person and the living a connexion exists which is not due to chance alone. This we hold as a proved fact. The ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-11-02 | Author:Rachel P. Maines

FIG. 12. British male reaction to the ascending douche, from Joseph Buckley, Recollections of the Late John Smedley and the Water Cure (1888; Matlock, England: Arkwright Society, 1973). ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS Electrotherapeutic ...
( Category: Electronics November 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-26 | Author:Bill Hayes [Hayes, Bill]

The topmost takes its name, as tendons tend to, from the muscle from which it emerges, the flexor digitorum superficialis, located way up in the forearm. This muscle also has ...
( Category: Anatomy November 1,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Murphy

George and Martha Washington, along with two young relatives and a servant, at Mount Vernon in Virginia. (THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA) On October 28, Washington climbed aboard a coach ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Sheri Fink [Fink, Sheri]

SPECIAL AGENT Virginia Rider harbored a similar moral outrage. What had happened at Memorial was wrong. It was as basic as the tenets of her Catholic religion, but she wasn’t ...
( Category: Medicine October 14,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Jon Queijo [Queijo, Jon]

Milestone #1 “That’s funny”: the strange and serendipitous discovery of penicillin Although most of us prefer to not think about it, just as we are surrounded by countless bacteria, we ...
( Category: History October 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-07 | Author:Laurie Edwards

Toward an Answer: Pain in the Twenty-First Century Like so many mythologies surrounding illness, the mythology of women in pain that has subsisted for so long exists in part because ...
( Category: Health Care Delivery September 8,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-21 | Author:Arthur Allen [Allen, Arthur]

Dietzsch at the Buchenwald trial. (National Archives.) By the time the camp was liberated, Ding had supervised 24 test series, involving around 1,000 patients. If the 150–200 “passage people” are ...
( Category: Germany August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Steve Parker [Parker, Steve]

The British Medical Journal finally acknowledged Lister’s achievements in 1879: “… The man who has done the most to take the ‘disgrace’ out of surgery is Mr. Lister.” By this ...
( Category: History August 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Howard Markel [Markel, Howard]

Six months later, on January 24, 1895, Sigmund wrote Fliess a note singing cocaine’s praises: I must hurriedly write to you about something that greatly astonishes me; otherwise I would ...
( Category: Substance Abuse May 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-10 | Author:ELAINE A. BYRNE

Conclusion In an 1859 lecture entitled ‘Self-Made Men’ the great Black American leader, Frederick Douglass, asserted that self-made men ‘owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth ...
( Category: Europe May 18,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Barney Sloane

Four PESTILENCE IN LATER FOURTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON Pestis Secunda, 1361 Secunda mortalitas. Eodem anno mortalitas generalis oppressit populum que dicebatur Pestis Secunda. Et moriebantur tam maiores quam minores, et maxime iuvenes ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Hamilton, Laurell K. [Hamilton, Laurell K.]

Chapter 21 THE LEATHER OF THE UPHOLSTERY SIGHED WITH AN ALMOST HUMAN sound as I settled back against the seat. A panel of black glass blocked our view of Barinthus. ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy March 27,2014 )