Stories
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The secret sting of cystitis
Agnes Arnold-Forster recounts her experiences of cystitis, explaining how this illness intersects with sexism, shame, and stigma from medical professionals.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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On body horror and growing up strange
A young child’s unusual feelings, reactions and assertions are routinely dismissed by adults. Find out how manga horror stories became a source of strength, and helped them trust their adult body.
Catalogue
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Atony of the bladder without obstruction or signs of organic nervous diseases / by J.W. Thomson Walker.
Thomson-Walker, J. W. (John William), 1871-1937.Date: 1910- Books
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Some medical aspects of the diseases of the gall-bladder and gall-ducts : an address delivered at the Sixth Triennial Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, held in Washington, D.C., May, 1903 / by John H. Musser.
Musser, John Herr, 1856-1912.Date: [1903]- Books
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A practical treatise on the diseases, injuries and malformations of the urinary bladder, the prostate gland, and the urethra / by Samuel D. Gross.
Date: 1876- Digital Images
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Downward transmission of yin diseases of the interior
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Theory of diseases treated with chaihu guizhi tang, Chinese