The Athenæum's editor, Charles Wentworth Dilke
, commissioned a reply that was attributed to the president of the Royal College of Surgeons
, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
. The response argued that HM
was...
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Sara Coleridge
Her physician assured her that her tumour would remain inert. But by the autumn of 1850 it had increased in size, and a new one had appeared under her arm. By spring 1851 she was...
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May 1828: French chemist Richard Chenevix experimented...
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May 1828
French chemist Richard Chenevix
experimented with animal magnetism on peasants during a visit to Ireland.