Three physicians’ contributions to the 17th-century Hortus Malabaricus remain shrouded in controversy after 350 years “My 15 years of research to connect the missing links in the history of Hortus ...

Born 224 years after Locke, Sigmund Freud, a Jew and the father of psychoanalysis, while unravelling the human psyche, said ...

The study states: "During a median follow-up of 11.2 years, higher tea intake was modestly associated with lower all-cause ...

Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — roughly one-tenth of the agency’s ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

Understanding of these four parts [breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb] has changed over time—positing at some times that ...

Tulasi Acharya’s book discusses how sexual desire and patriarchy shape South Asian society, drawing from history, religion, and literature.

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Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism ... became involved in the industrial production of medicine, producing patented medicine from 1842, and ...

In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...

Antique and vintage furnishings are inherently timeless; after all, if that table was beautiful in 1920 and still looks great ...