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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men

The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.

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Don’t call me a strong Black woman

Her upbringing taught Jaydee Seaforth that she could never show pain or weakness, even when her internal distress was extreme. Find out how she learned to listen to her body.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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  • Royal Baths. Shampooing, Turkish Medicated, Vapour, Sulphur, Barege, Tepid & Shower.
  • Royal Baths : shampooing, Turkish medicated, vapour, sulphur, barege, tepid & shower baths : no. 9, Suffolk Place, Pall Mall East : the original establishment by B. Dominiceti M.D., 1764 is now conducted on the same principles by Mr. Seaman.
  • Medical researches on caloric or dry baths, on vapour baths and on general or partial fumigations / Translated ... by J. Short.
  • The Medical Cold Baths, and Fenton's Hotel, St. James's Street, London. Watercolour attributed to T. C. Dibdin.
  • Bath: a procession of doctors watched by bystanders, at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association. Photograph, 1925.
  • The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death. With remarks on the general effects of sea-bathing / [E. Sibly].
  • The Baths of Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Lithograph by J. Jacottet after R. Ritz.
  • The Baths of Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Lithograph by J. Jacottet after R. Ritz.
  • A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
  • A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
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