Numerical Model for a Nineteenth-Century Hydrometric Module

Two nineteenth century surgeons.

the biggest problem in guerilla warfare and at one time we were carrying so many wounded on stretchers, with two men carrying, that there were few left to fight. Food was very scarce; we seemed to live on boiled billy goat-which tastes as the billy goat smells-and a rock hard maize bread "chicken mash," equally unpalatable. Vegetables were never seen. Later we could get sheep milk yogurt and in...

Nineteenth-century scientific instruments

The first thing to be said about this book is that it is an excellent survey of nineteenth-century scientific instruments. Its excellence lies in its value as a guide to the identification of objects. The volume is extremely well produced; the illustrations, which are mainly photographs of instruments, are first class; and Dr. Turner's detailed text irreproachably sound. The book is a general a...

Langstaff: a nineteenth-century medical life

the state. Caring for the poor in hospitals and during home visits, individual physicians since the Enlightenment got involved in political reform movements, joining their voices to describe the evils of urbanization and industrialization. Other work has exposed the recent political fortunes of the medical profession itself and its struggles to achieve a healing monopoly. As the Porters point o...

A geography of nineteenth-century Britain

The nineteenth-century quarantine narrative.