Scientific and philosophical accounts of cognition and perception have traditionally focused
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Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter Cacaphonies takes
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Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers,
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This paper shows how Austrian psychiatrists of the 1870s developed the first pathological
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent health challenge in a Danish welfare context.
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This book was my divorce book. This book was my pandemic book. This book was my
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Abstract From Italian physician Hieronymus Mercurialis's contention that the stomach was
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This is the second instalment of a two-part thematic review of nineteenth-century French
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Abstract Benjamin Rush (Fig. 3.1), who lived from 1745 until his death in 1813, was arguably
tone of the most well-known American physicians during the founding of America. He taught …

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