19th Century
How one 19th-century Midwesterner got us all doing the downward dog -- and paved the way for puppy yoga
Tags: 19th Century, Puppy, Yoga
Vintage ad for diet candies, courtesy of Flickr user tmat1075 This is the third in a three-part series about the history of health foods, from antiquity to medieval times to the present day. If we don’t count the Diet of Worms in 1521, which sounds like it would certainly induce weight loss but in fact has nothing to do with food (or creepy-crawlies), the modern conception of dieting can probably be traced to the 19th century. This was when a formerly portly London undertaker, William
Tags: 19th Century, Antiquity, Candies, Conception, Diet Of Worms, Dieting, Health Food, Health Foods, London, Medieval Times, Present Day, Undertaker, Vintage Ad, Weight Loss
The 19th century French neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette is best known for Tourette's Syndrome, but a fascinating article in European Neurology traces his interest in the criminal uses of hypnosis. It is full of surprising facts, like that he was shot in the head by a delusional patient who believed that she had been hypnotised against her will, and that he eventually died in a Swiss asylum after developing psychosis caused by syphilis. We now know that hypnosis cannot be used
Tags: 1890s, 19th Century, Asylum, Control, France, Georges Gilles, Hypnosis, Mind Control, Neurologist, Neurology, Psychosis, Surprising Facts, Swiss
