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De Myristica [Nutmeg]

The spices nutmeg and mace (from the seed and its lacy covering, respectively) come from several species of trees in the genus Myristica indigenous to the Banda Islands in Indonesia – the famous Spice Islands of history and lore. They are the focus of this university dissertation written by Professor Carl Peter Thunberg. In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, professors wrote the dissertations; the student’s job was to explicate and defend it and pay for its publication.

The War in the Air

H. G. Wells's The War in the Air is a dark futuristic work of science fiction depicting aerial warfare between the United States and Germany. Wells's prophetic vision was written well before WWI when full scale aerial warfare would take place. The story unfolds of Bert Smallways, a young man accidentally carried away in a navigable airship invented by Mr. Butteridge. During his adventure, Smallways travels to Germany, discovering a secret airfield, and in the process, Germany's plans to attack the United States.

A History of Medicine

This work gives a comprehensive overview and underlines analogies, correlations, and differences among social conditions, intellectual movements, political events, paradigms and beliefs in an effort to identify logical threads to navigate among the immense number of facts and data of the history of medicine. The complete work will consist of eight volumes describing primitive and Ancient Medicine as well as Chinese, Hindu, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Persian, biblical, and American pre-Columbian practices.

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