The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.

Anatomist, surgeon, antiquarian, writer, Pettigrew engaged in experiments on the effects of galvanism is cases of suspended animation; as surgeon to the Duke and Duchess of Kent he vaccinated the child who was to become Queen Victoria; and catalogued the library of the Duke, publishing the first volume under the title Bibliotheca sussexiana. -- Orr Catalogue, p.44.

The series on early essays on acupuncture and moxa consists of three volumes grouping the first English texts covering this topic. These essays are fundamental within the context of history and historiography of the field, clinical applications, and early explorations of the mechanisms involved. Volume 2 Larrey, D. J. On the Use of Moxa as a Therapeutical Agent (1822). Translated by Robley Dunglison. Temple, William. An Essay upon the Cure of the Gout by Moxa (1677).