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epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee [Mukherjee, Siddhartha]

What is a gene, then? When Mendel discovered the “gene” in 1865, he knew it only as an abstract phenomenon: a discrete determinant, transmitted intact across generations, that specified a ...
( Category: Evolution March 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Misha Ruth Cohen

STEP SIX: QI UP, QI DOWN Place the tips of the fingers of your right hand on the pectoral muscle by the crook of your left arm. Move your fingers ...
( Category: Herbal Remedies February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Jackson [Mark Jackson]

JAMES GRAHAM’S ‘CELESTIAL BED’ Some quacks claimed to be able to solve sexual problems. The most renowned eighteenth-century ‘sex therapist’ was James Graham (1745–94), who lectured and treated patients in ...
( Category: History September 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mattern, Susan P.;

Chapter Seven GALEN AND HIS PATIENTS t this point we lose the narrative thread of Galen’s life. We know—from one vague reference—that he suffered in the reign of Marcus’s son ...
( Category: Rome September 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Fay Bound Alberti [Bound Alberti, Fay]

7 Tongue-Tied? From Nagging Wives to a Question of Taste That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once. How the knave jowls it to the ground, as ...
( Category: General September 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Aristotle; Kenny, Anthony;

RELATION OF WISDOM TO UNDERSTANDING What is the use of wisdom and philosophy? 12. One might wonder whether these virtues are of any use. Philosophical understanding does not focus on ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Luke Dittrich

PART IV DISCOVERY TWENTY WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD “It’s terrible how things accrue.” Those are the first words in the transcript of my first interview with Brenda Milner. When ...
( Category: Medical August 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Changlin Zhang & Jonathan Heaney [Zhang, Changlin]

Unique Challenges of Studying the Electromagnetic Body The scope of our senses inevitably dictated the course that science and medicine took in investigating our bodies. Starting with the visible and ...
( Category: Acupuncture & Acupressure August 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Smith, Vaidya Atreya; Mason, Andrew; [Andrew Mason]

Bhallātaka purification methods Method 1 Ingredients 200g Bhallātaka/Bilader (Semecarpus anacardium) Cow’s urine or milk 1.200g of Bhallātaka nuts are washed in warm water and sorted according to their ability to ...
( Category: Alternative Medicine July 25,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

VI Having discovered the nature of puerperal fever, having devised a way to prevent it, and having accomplished these feats of clinical science in a logical, lucid way consistent with ...
( Category: Medical July 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 1895-01-01 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

I have given an Account already of what I found to ha’ been the Case down the River among the Sea-faring Men, how the Ships lay in the Offing, as ...
( Category: Biographical July 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]

* * * KEELY PUT ON a pair of brown corduroy slacks and a beige turtleneck sweater and ran a brush through her thick, straight blond hair. She hoped Clark ...
( Category: Contemporary July 2,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Monte Francis

THIRTY As a member of the FBI’s Evidence Response Team Unit, Special Agent Jolene Goeden had been working behind the scenes on how best to collect evidence in the case. ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Roy Porter

CHAPTER XIV FROM PASTEUR TO PENICILLIN Just think of it. A hundred years ago there were no bacilli, no ptomaine poisoning, no diphtheria, and no appendicitis. Rabies was but little ...
( Category: Medical History & Records May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-23 | Author:Stephen Coss

18 POINTED SATYR Late on the afternoon of December 2, 1721, several hours after what Samuel Sewall called “a great Funeral” for the deceased Boston politician William Hutchinson, a letter ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 25,2016 )