Rumbles, page 27
see also bacteria
midwifery 66–7, 299–300n66
Miles, Eustace Hamilton 275–7, 284–5
milk fermented 81
magic 66
Miller, Ian 82
Milton, John 131
mind 2, 10, 18, 21–2, 27–90, 134, 292 –body dualism 36, 257
brain work 116–35
see also cognition; intelligence
mindful eating 116
Minoans 177
Montaigne, Michel de 129
mood 10, 21, 27–8, 34, 82 demons 68
humours 85–7
see also anxiety; depression
Moore, Alison 174, 186
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista 197
mucosal barrier 220
multiple sclerosis 10, 202
‘Murder Act’ 1752 106
N
Napoleon III, Emperor 165
Napoleonic Wars 237
National Anti-Vivisection Society 43, 46
national etiquette 72
national identity 19–20, 235–8, 244
Nehue-Cue 184–5
Neocleous, Mark 16
nervous system 29, 31–4, 120–3, 126 autonomic 33, 114
enteric 33–4, 114
parasympathetic 93, 116
sympathetic 112
nervousness 121, 123, 142
neuroendocrine signalling 18, 53
neurogastroenterology 13, 29, 34, 53
neuronal signalling 9
New Grub Street 143, 144
New Health Society 216
New Lanark 152
‘New Woman’ 265–6, 287
Newcombe, C. P. 215–16
The Nightmare 63–4, 64
nightmares 56–65, 64, 70
Noisy Guts Project 291
O
Oates, Caroline 60, 65
obesity 116, 246–57, 260–4, 274–5
octopuses 49–50
office workers 136–54
‘Old London Street’ 172–3, 173
On Anatomical Procedures 194
Oresme, Nicole 231
organic food 55, 224
Orwell, George 203
Osler, William 109, 180, 181
overindulgence see gluttony
Owen, Robert 152
P
Padua anatomy theatre 196, 197
Paget, John 14
Paleo diet 247
pancreas 5, 31, 33, 97
Pankhurst, Emmeline 281
Paracelsus 100, 101
paraffin oil 217
parasympathetic nervous system 93, 116
Paris 133, 158, 164–5, 166–7, 175, 176, 178, 208, 226–8, 229
passions 21, 54, 74, 75–8, 81–2, 86, 88
pasta 235–6
Pasteur, Louis 210
Paul, St 231
Peel, Robert 240, 240
A Perfect Discovery of Witches 183
peristalsis 34, 112
pineal gland 36–8, 37
Plato 54, 77, 130, 231
Plutarch 179
poisoning 66, 197, 234, 243
politics 223–87
pollution, River Thames 161–4
poo transplants 12, 201–2, 251
Porphyry of Tyre 65
Porter, Dorothy 126
Porter, Roy 126
Post, Emily 72–3
Post, Peggy 73
postal workers 149–50
Praxis Medicinae 191
pregnancy 58, 67–8
Presley, Elvis 51
probiotics 10, 15, 201, 211, 220
processed foods 13–14, 215, 220, 293
productivity 146, 150–1, 153, 269
Prohibition 88
prophecy 178–200
proteases 101
Prout, William 110
psychoanalysis 59
psychosomatic conditions 18
psychosomatic medicine 112
Purnis, Jan 87, 182–3
Q
QAnon Shaman 224
Quetelet, Adolphe 259–61
R
Rabelais, François 5, 89
Race Betterment Foundation 273
railways 138–9, 140
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago 34
rarebit 60–1
rational soul 38
reading 118–19, 129–32, 134
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de 97
rectum 8
Rémy, Nicholas 68
Renaissance 5, 25, 82, 89, 129–30, 134, 186, 194, 261–2, 266
resurrectionists 106
Reynolds, Edward 133
Rigveda 231
Riskin, Jessica 227
Roach, Mary 110
Robinson, Byron 33–4
Rogers, Ben 239
Roman Catholic Relief Act 240, 240
Roman Empire 130, 162, 179, 185, 230
Royal Society of Medicine 106, 110, 218
RSPCA 45
S
St. Martin, Alexis 95–7, 108–9, 110–11, 181
saliva 8, 42, 93, 172
Sandow, Eugen 277–8, 278, 279
sandwiches 136–7, 139–40, 143, 146, 154
sanitary science 160
sanitation 158–69, 172–8
Sawday, Jonathan 195
Scatalogic Rites of All Nations 185–6
scatology 186–9, 191–3, 199
scatomancy 184–5
Schartau, Leisa 42–3
schizophrenia 208
Schoenfeldt, Michael 3, 189
scholars/intellectuals 118–20, 123–30, 133–5
Scot, Reginald 62–3
‘second brain’ 34–5
secretin 49
Selden, John 83, 292
self 3, 7, 19, 21, 42, 68, 90, 234, 242, 244, 292 civilised 176
juridical model 257
technologies of 250
Seneca 130
serotonin 18, 53, 69
Seventh-day Adventist Church 271–2
sewage 158–69, 172–8, 292
sewers 164–6, 175, 176–7, 178, 292
Shakespeare, William 127–8, 179, 230–1
Shapin, Steven 56
Shelley, Mary 102–3
Shelley, Percy 103
sleep 58 dreams 56–8
nightmares 56–65, 64, 70
small intestine 8, 9
Smiles, Samuel 257
Smith, Helen 132
social class 121–2, 142–3, 231–2
social hierarchy 71–3, 75–6
social medicine 216
soul 22, 36–8, 39–42, 78–9, 81, 103, 133
Spallanzani, Lazzaro 96–7
Spary, Emma 228
speed of eating 116, 214–15
Spenser, Edmund 100, 128
spices 235
spiritual knowledge 131–3
spleen 5, 97, 100, 120
Spurinna 179–80, 199
Starling, Ernest 31–3, 49
stasis see constipation
stool-gazing 192, 193
stress 18, 112, 114–15, 136, 146, 150, 212
Suetonius 179
suffragettes 23, 281–7
superstitions 174, 182, 186
Swann, Elizabeth L. 127
sympathetic nervous system 112
‘sympathy’ 70
T
table manners 73, 75–6, 87–9, 228
taboos 20, 21, 174, 175, 186, 292
‘The Tale of Beryn’ 249
Tarter, Albert Lloyd 167
taste in art 127–9, 134
Tate, Joseph 191
Taymount Clinic 201–2
tea drinking 71
Thames, River 161–4
Thompson, E. P. 139
time 138–9, 154–221 of death 197–8
technology of power 221
Tissot, Samuel 125
toilet training 155–6, 176
toilets 163, 213–14 first flushing 158, 159, 160, 166
transubstantiation 132
Treatise on Desk Diseases 142
Treitel, Corinna 24
Trotter, Thomas 126
Trump, Donald 223, 280
U
ulcerative colitis 13, 202
urbanisation 138, 154, 203–4, 212
urine chart 190, 191
uroscopy 190–1, 199
V
vagus nerve 30, 52, 69
van Helmont, Jan Baptiste 100–1
van Swieten, Gerard 255
Vaucanson, Jacques de 226–8
Vaughan, William 78–9, 99
vegetarianism 24, 27, 65, 81, 146–8, 215–16, 249, 272, 276–7, 285–6
vegetative soul 38
ventriloquism 182–3
Vesalius, Andreas 100, 194–5, 197
Vibrio cholerae 162
Victoria, Queen 43
Vila, Anne C. 133
villi 8
viruses 9, 50, 182, 201
Vitalait 210, 211
vivisection 31–3, 40–9, 44
Voltaire 227–8
Vyse, Charles 76
W
Wadd, William 254, 255–6
Wallace Dunlop, Marion 281–2, 283
Wallace, W. M. 142
Walton, Jean 156
Ward, Edith 285
wartime 237–9
Watson, John B. 155–6
Webster, Frederick Annesley 274
Wellcome Sanger Institute 252
Wellington, Duke of 240, 240
White, Ellen G. 271–2
Whiting, Sydney 5–6, 290
Whorton, James C. 218
Whytt, Robert 122
Wilce, John W. 279
Williams, Raymond 17
Willis, Thomas 39–40, 120
witchcraft 62–3, 65–7, 299–300n66
Women’s League of Health and Beauty 274
Women’s March on Versailles 229
Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) 281–5
Women’s Vegetarian Union 286
work/life balance 136
World Fairs 158
X
X-rays 98, 111–14, 113, 114
Y
yogurt 12, 24, 210–11, 273
Z
Zemka, Sue 150–1
Zuni people 184–5
Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina 275
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