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1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction: Experience, Experiment, Expertise -- Introduction to Volume II: Humanity -- Part 1 Macrobiotics -- 1 'Preface', in The Art of Prolonging Human Life: In Which the Subject Is Considered, Both Philosophically and Practically -- Part 2 Phrenology -- 2 The Constitution of Man in Relation to Natural Laws -- Part 3 Galvanism -- 3 General Views of the Application of Galvanism to Medical Purposes -- Principally in Cases of Suspended Animation -- Part 4 Mesmerism |
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4 Account of a Case of Successful Amputation of the Thigh During the Mesmeric State, without the knowledge of the patient -- 5 Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State -- with Remarks upon the Opposition of Many Members of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and Others to the Reception of the Inestimable Blessings of Mesmerism -- Part 5 Surgery -- 6 Introductory Address Delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital, October 1st, 1889 -- Part 6 Physiology and medicine |
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7 Physiological and Chemical Researches on the Use of the Prussic or Hydro-Cyanic Acid in the Treatment of Diseases of the Breast, and Particularly in Phthisis Pulmonalis -- 8 A Memoir on Some Recent Discoveries Relative to the Functions of the Nervous System: Read Before the Academie des Sciences at Paris, at the Public Sitting of the 22d of June, 1823 -- 9 Experimentation of Animals -- 10 'To the Editor of The Times', 23 June, 1876 -- 11 'Introduction', in Stephen Paget, Experiments on Animals -- 12 Animal Experimentation in Relation to Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis |
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13 The Torture of Animals and Its Effect upon the Death Rate: Being a Reprint by Permission from the Contemporary Review, of a Controversy between Mr Stephen Coleridge and Mr Stephen Paget -- 14 'The Endowment of Research' -- 15 A Textbook of Experimental Physiology for Students of Medicine -- 16 The Value of Animal Experimentation as Illustrated by Recent Advances in the Study of Syphilis -- 17 'Introduction', in For and Against Experiments on Animals: Evidence Before the Royal Commission on Vivisection, by Stephen Paget |
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18 Life: Its Nature, Origin and Maintenance: An Address Delivered to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Its Meeting at Dundee in September, 1912 -- 19 'Visual Discrimination of Size and Form in the Albino Rat' -- 20 Animal Experimentation and Medical Progress -- Part 7 Eugenics/statistics/anthropometry -- 21 The Anthropometric Laboratory -- 22 British Association for the Advancement of Science, 'Mental and Physical Deviations of Children' -- 23 Memories of My Life -- 24 'How to Improve the Race' -- Part 8 Bacteriology -- 25 On Bacteriology and Its Results: A Lecture |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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26 The Cure of Consumption: Further Communication on a Remedy for Tuberculosis |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000860047 |
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1000860043 |
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