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Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Sleep and Dreams

Why do humans sleep?  How much do we need to...

Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided

How closely are we related to each other, and how...

Mind over matter

Charlatan "cures" and "alternative" treatments are widespread and popular.  Despite...

Current Trends in European and Middle Eastern Mortality

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

Genius or Madness?

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

The Ageing Eye

As the eye ages, profound structural changes occur, leading to...

Acting on Evidence: How Medical Research has informed Historical Drama

John Powell is an experienced medical advisor on a range...