Stories
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Diagnosing the past
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
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Essentials of pelvic diagnosis : with illustrative cases / by E. Stanmore Bishop ; and an appendix on examination of blood, etc. by Chas. H. Melland.
Bishop, E. Stanmore.Date: 1903- Books
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The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system ... / by Frederick Hollick.
Hollick, Frederick, 1818-1900.Date: 1850- Books
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On spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptomatology, pathology, prognosis, diagnosis and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.
Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.Date: 1866- Books
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On spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptomatology, pathology, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.
Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.Date: 1866- Books
Clinical urology : essentials of diagnosis and treatment / Lowrain E. McCrea.
McCrea, Lowrain E. (Lowrain Edward), 1896-Date: 1948