SUCCESS

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Footnotes: 92

Books: 18

Articles: 19

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Title: “The Fashionable Custom of Despising the Lancet”: Medical Discourse and the Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting in Nineteenth-Century Britain



Thesis Day: ?!?!

You may be feeling like I fell off the face of the blogosphere Earth.

Believe me, no one feels that way more than I do.

Musical Interlude

Brought to you by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Thesis Day 22.5: Try to run, try to hide, break on through to the other side?

The last eureka moment I had did not bring about the revitalization of the thesis project as I had hoped. Certainly, it was a brick in the wall I’m struggling to build.

But I think I just mixed up the grout.

Thesis Day 22: Unnngh.

16 days left.

Thesis Day 16: The Sleeping Effect

Not to be confused with the sleeper effect.  Or, unfortunately, a sleeper agent – though that would be pretty boss.

Thesis Day 15: Caffeine Euphoria & Eurekas

Sometimes it’s difficult to tell an overdose of coffee from makes-your-hands-tremble brilliance.

Thesis Day 14: Ethanol-as-Fuel

So the snack cakes thing isn’t working any more.

Thesis Day 11: Bad Forecast

This thesis-writing project is looking less like a Da Vinci machine and more like the early experiments of the Wright brothers.

Thesis Day 9: Runaway Bandwagon!

Well, I fell off that bandwagon. But I will roll, dust myself off, and chase it down the lane!