title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 | en | | | | Impostors and imposture; Swindlers and swindling; Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Investments -- Psychological aspects; Delusions; Alchemy; Social psychology | 1996-11-01 |
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 | en | | The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics. | | Delusions; Impostors and imposture; Occultism; Social psychology; Swindlers and swindling; Hallucinations and illusions | 2008-02-05 |
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 | Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 | en | | Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions -- The contagiousness of puerperal fever -- Currents and counter-currents in medical science -- Border lines of knowledge in some provinces of medical science -- Scholastic and bedside teaching -- The medical profession in Massachusetts -- The young practitioner -- Medical libraries -- Some of my early teachers | | Medicine; Education, Medical -- Massachusetts -- 19th century; Homeopathy; Libraries, Medical -- Massachusetts -- 19th century | 2004-09-29 |