#Anecdotique : en 1863, un certain William Banting publie, à compte d'auteur, une lettre ouverte décrivant la réussite de son régime minceur, laquelle se vendra à plus de 63 000 exemplaires partout dans le monde. C'est grâce à la limitation des hydrates de carbone (aliments au goût sucré + sucres lents) qu'il réussit, sur les conseils du Docteur William Harvey, à perdre vingt kilos en un an, sans les reprendre ensuite.
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The Initiation of The Prince of Wales
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/02/24/the-initiation-of-the-prince-of-wales/
The Craft owe a’ the land this day Adorns the Lodge wi’ garlands gay, Auld England shouts, in brave array, “Hail, Mason-Prince!” And Scots in canty, couthie way, Their hopes evince! Our Prince and Brither! Here’s our prayer! May Boaz build thy Royal chair In strength; may peace and pleasure mair Then fill thy […]
> ... George Washington’s final days, Washington was bled seven times on the night he died, which, no doubt, had something to do with why he died. All of this occurred, mind you, 153 years after Harvey discovered that blood circulates throughout the body.
#NeilPostman in #Technopoly on #WilliamHarvey and #GeorgeWashington #GeorgeWashingtonsDeath #GeorgeWashingtonsMedicine
Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, considered the most accurate of classical microscopists, who was the first to observe and describe red blood cells (1658). Swammerdam completed medical studies in 1667 but never practiced medicine, devoting himself to microscopical investigations instead. Turning
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