Science & medicine (70 pages found in this category)


Sooterkin

Imaginary kind of afterbirth in the form of an "evil-looking little animal" especially attributed to Dutch women.

Staffordshire acre

Redirected to Cheshire acre.

Tapputi

Babylonian chemist and a royal perfume maker.

The Sleeping Girl of Turville

Girl claimed by her mother to have fallen into a deep sleep from which she could not be roused for nine years.

Thomas Coward

English ornithologist and journalist (1867–1933)

Tobacco smoke enema

An insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments

Troxler Effect

Perceptual illusion in which an image in peripheral vision disappears.

Turlington’s Balsam

Turlington's Balsam of Life was a patent medicine developed by English merchant Robert Turlington, patented in 1744.

Wapentake

Anglo-Saxon administrative unit.

Zam-Buk

Zam-Buk was a patent medicine produced by the Zam-Buk Company of Leeds, England, founded by Charles Edward Fulford. It was first sold by his Bile Beans company in 1902, as a herbal balm and antiseptic ointment.