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  • 91weather-bound — confined confined adj. 1. having movement restricted to within a certain area; usually a building. Opposite of {unconfined}. Note: [Narrower terms: {claustrophobic}; {close, confining}; {homebound, housebound, shut in}; {in childbed(prenominal)}; …

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  • 92Weed — Weed, n. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 93puerperal fever — noun Date: 1768 an abnormal condition that results from infection of the placental site following delivery or abortion and is characterized in mild form by fever but in serious cases the infection may spread through the uterine wall or pass into… …

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  • 94Mary Wollstonecraft — by John Opie (c. 1797) Mary Wollstonecraft ( …

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  • 95Catherine Parr — Infobox British Royalty|majesty|consort name =Catherine Parr title =Queen consort of England and Ireland caption = reign =12 July 1543 28 January 1547 spouse =Edward Borough John Nevill Henry VIII Thomas Seymour spouse type =Spouse issue =Mary… …

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  • 96Fairy — Infobox Paranormalcreatures Creature Name = Fairy Image Caption = Take the Fair Face of Woman… by Sophie Anderson Grouping = Mythological creature Born = 105BC Died = NA Possibilities = AKA = Fay Fae Faerie Wee Folk Good Folk Fair Folk Country =… …

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  • 97Timeline of medicine and medical technology — Timeline of medicine and medical technologyAntiquity* c. 2600s BC Imhotep wrote texts on ancient Egyptian medicine describing diagnosis and treatment of 200 diseases in 3rd dynasty Egypt. * c. 2596 BC¹ The legendary date of composition of Huangdi …

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  • 98The Private Life of Henry VIII — Infobox Film name = The Private Life of Henry VIII image size = 150px imdb id = 0024473 writer = Lajos Biró Arthur Wimperis starring = Charles Laughton Robert Donat Merle Oberon Elsa Lanchester Franklin Dyall Miles Mander director = Alexander… …

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  • 99Bloodletting — (or blood letting, in modern medicine referred to as phlebotomy) was a tremendously popular medical practice from antiquity up to the late 19th century, a time span of almost 2,000 years. Bloodletting involves the withdrawal of often considerable …

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  • 100Antiseptic — Antiseptics (from Greek αντί anti , against + σηπτικός septikos , putrefactive ) are antimicrobial substances that are applied to living tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putrefaction. They should generally be… …

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