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The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles Medical Devices and Treatments from the Golden Age of Quackery


Free Download The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles: Medical Devices and Treatments from the Golden Age of Quackery by Jeremy Agnew
English | November 3rd, 2021 | ISBN: 1476683832 | 287 pages | True EPUB | 10.55 MB
Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate therapies, it is difficult to label them altogether as bogus.

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Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories New Translation


Free Download Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories: New Translation (Alma Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Roger Cockrell
English | 19 Nov. 2014 | ISBN: 1847493874 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 1 MB
Brand new translation with many of the stories translated for the first time into English. Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bugakov was working in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy. Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them such as The Cockroach and A Dissolute Man published for the first time in the English language.

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Catalyst Conference NLP with ChatGPT (and other Large Language Models) Transformer Architectures from Development to Deployment


Free Download Catalyst Conference NLP with ChatGPT (and other Large Language Models) Transformer Architectures from Development to Deployment
Released 3/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 2h 52m | Size: 561 MB
Discover the astounding state-of-the-art in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that is enabled by Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and T5

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