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The Luther Of Medicine?

Sam Leith T HE D EVIL ’ S D OCTOR : P ARACELSUS AND THE W ORLD OF R ENAISSANCE M AGIC AND SCIENCE by Philip Ball Heinemann, £20, pp. 416, ISBN 0434011347 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p)......

Very High Dudgeon

Olivia Glazebrook CLEAVER by Tim Parks Harvill/Secker, £16.99, pp. 316, ISBN 0436205610 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 H arold Cleaver is a middle-aged man at the......

Deaf

He hears you talking but he doesn’t hear all the words your speech sounds represent. He listens hard: the wordless words pass by. He can’t locate their whatsits ...? Referents?......