| Author |
Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon), 1782-1862 |
| LoC No. |
34037216
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| Title |
Curiosities of Medical Experience
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| Note |
Reading ease score: 51.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
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| 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.
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| Credits |
E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
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| Summary |
"Curiosities of Medical Experience" by J. G. Millingen is a collection of observations and insights into various unusual topics related to medicine, written in the early 19th century. This work aims to explore the strange relationships between human experiences and medical assumptions, challenging the credence given to well-known medical doctrines and highlighting the sometimes bizarre practices associated with healing. The content promises a blend of intriguing anecdotes and medical curiosities that reflect on the historical context of medicine. The opening of the book sets the stage for Millingen's exploration of medical anomalies, specifically beginning with a discussion of obesity and its varying societal perceptions. Millingen references historical figures and medicine's intersection with culture, illustrating the diverse attitudes towards corpulence across different eras and nations. He notes the contrasting beliefs regarding body image and health, including humorous anecdotes related to corpulent individuals, as well as medical opinions from historical texts. Overall, the beginning of the text invites readers into a fascinating world where medicine, culture, and human experience intertwine. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
R: Medicine
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| Subject |
Medicine
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
39074 |
| Release Date |
Mar 7, 2012 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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