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Diagram showing possible points of acupuncture for electrical treatment of disorders

From J.B. Sarlandière’s Mémoires sur l’electro-puncture, considérée comme moyen nouveau de traiter efficacement la goutte, les rheumatismes et les affections nerveuses, sur l’emploi du moxa japonaia en France : suivis d’un traité de l’acupuncture et du moxa, principaux moyens curatifs chez les peuples de la Chine, de la Corée et du Japon; ornés de figures japonaises (1825).

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Digital Highlights: “The Kingdom of Evils”

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Two years after the death of E.E. Southard, one of his co-workers, Mary Jarrett, published one of the volumes on social work which Southard had proposed before his death. The Kingdom of Evils was meant to be a kind of instructional chart of what Southard — and presumably Jarrett – felt were the chief problems likely to confront the social worker. Continue reading

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