Stories
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Not one yoga, but many yogas
From ancient tradition to modern gym class, yoga means many things to many people.
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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Bacon Frank Manuscript Collection, and associated material
Johnston, Nathaniel, 1627-1705.Date: mid 15th century - mid 18th centuryReference: MSS.550, 3083-3086 and 6079-6080- Archives and manuscripts
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Collection of medical tracts in verse and prose, mostly in Middle English (Leech-Books, III)
Date: Early 15th century - late 16th centuryReference: MS.406- Archives and manuscripts
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Medical miscellany in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica XXV)
Date: Late 15th century - Early 16th CenturyReference: MS.551- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Johann Lochner, Consilia
Lochner, Johann ( -1491)Date: Late 15th centuryReference: MS.433- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Serapion, Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, in Italian, imperfect at the end
Ibn Wafid (d. 1067) of ToledoDate: Mid 15th centuryReference: MS.746