Science & medicine (70 pages found in this category)


Charles White, physician

English physician and a co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, along with local industrialist Joseph Bancroft.

Checker shadow illusion

Perceptual illusion demonstrating that the visual system uses context as well as physical luminance to determine the lightness or darkness of an object.

Cheshire acre

Historical measure of area that was used in the 19th century.

Cheshire cat

Fictional character that appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

Chevalier Taylor

Redirected to John Taylor (oculist)

Crazy Sally Mapp

Redirected to Sarah Mapp.

Customary Acre

Redirected to Cheshire acre.

David Gregory

Scottish physician and inventor accused of witchcraft. He inherited Kinnairdy Castle in Banffshire.

Doctrine of signatures

Observation that the form of a medicinal plant in some way resembles the organ or disease it can be used to treat.

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

Physics researcher, activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.