Tag: The Odyssey
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Musical evenings on HMS Bounty
Stewart Justman Missoula, Montana, United States The mutineers turning Bligh and his crew from the Bounty, 29th April 1789. Illustration by Robert Dodd. 1790. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Dispatched to Tahiti in 1787 to gather breadfruit trees to be transplanted to the West Indies, HMS Bounty was a small ship with every possible…
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“Uncertain disease”: the science of nostalgia
Kevis Goodman Berkeley, California, USA Nosology, 1800 William Cullen William Cullen, the well-esteemed Edinburgh physician and professor of medicine at Glasgow and later Edinburgh, shared the “love of system” praised by no less than Adam Smith, who—not coincidentally—happened to be Cullen’s patient and friend.1 Cullen set out to gather all existing medical nosologies (the…