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La Traviata – ”the fallen woman“ or “the lost one“ – is based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The opera by Giuseppe Verdi premiered in Venice on March 6th1853. The setting is Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. https://t.co/wWQWf7x53A https://t.co/ogICip03rs

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John Wesley was an Anglican priest who wrote 400 publications, preached 40,000 sermons, and reluctantly founded a movement, disparagingly called “Methodism,” to channel the energy of the poor into revival rather than revolution. https://t.co/viSnc7YSPB https://t.co/2nXgig3cw0

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“Doctor, the pills are good for nothing – I might as well swallow snow-balls – I have told you over and over, how hard I am to move; and I ought to know something of my constitution… Prithee send me another prescription” – -Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker https://t.co/6b8Sp2xcgo

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La Traviata – ”the fallen woman“ or “the lost one“ – is based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The opera by Giuseppe Verdi premiered in Venice on March 6th1853. The setting is Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. https://t.co/wWQWf7x53A https://t.co/ogICip03rs

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Mesmerism is named after the Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer, who claimed that a universal fluid determined all health. He maintained that magnets could control the fluid’s influence on disease and that “there is only one disease and one cure.” https://t.co/jmodVuR3Ol https://t.co/8wr18N1z0d

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As we grapple with the impact of the Covid–19 pandemic we may wish to seek understanding in works of non-fiction such as The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Pepys, or The Plague by Albert Camus (1947). https://t.co/XxwbvDPvWc

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La Traviata – ”the fallen woman“ or “the lost one“ – is based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The opera by Giuseppe Verdi premiered in Venice on March 6th1853. The setting is Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. https://t.co/wWQWf7x53A https://t.co/ogICip03rs

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In the “The Radetzky March” Joseph Roth describes how at Solferino the main hero placed himself in front of Emperor Franz Joseph and took a bullet himself to spare his life. He made a speedy recovery and was later knighted. https://t.co/lSYNEW9tBy https://t.co/KngHhI8EZx

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The Bristol physician William Budd (1811-1880) was one of the first epidemiologists to show that typhoid fever and cholera were spread by drinking water contaminated with human excreta rather than arising by “spontaneous generation” https://t.co/adNbu37EFX. https://t.co/wq2ley9e7w

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A doctor of the old school. “The apparition of a god would not have caused more commotion. Everyone trembled when he was angry; and his students so revered him that they tried to imitate him as much as possible.” (Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary) https://t.co/5ORprb2rp0 https://t.co/UGlf8bySfX