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The law of periodicity for menstruation
| Lalita Kaplish
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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The ancient doctors who refused payment
| Christopher DeCouSteven Pocock
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
| Katherine Harvey
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.