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...et curieuses, thirty-four volumes of which appeared between 1702 and 1776. The Jesuit accounts of far-flung lands were widely read during the Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is...

...double daisies or dark wallflowers; at the well, clean and comely women carrying yoked buckets, and toward the free school small Britons dawdling on, and handling their marbles in the pockets of unpatched corduroys adorned with brass buttons. The land around was rich and marly, great corn-stacks stood in the rick-yards—for the rick-burners had not found their way...

...et al., 1992). Medical journals were founded in rather smaller numbers in Europe at the same time – in France, Germany and Belgium, where the Scalpel (surely in homage to Wakley's Lancet) appeared. Even in Russia, twenty-three new journals were established around the middle of the century. Nineteenth-century medicine had a form and character that was unique to its time....