Stories
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The meaning of trauma is wound
Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.
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Is your job bad for your teeth?
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
Catalogue
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The natural history and diseases, of the human teeth : in two parts illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates / by Joseph Fox.
Fox, Joseph, 1776-1816.Date: 1814- Books
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A practical essay on the human teeth: explaining the art of effectually preserving the health, utility, and beauty of the teeth, gums, and contiguous parts of the mouth, and setting forth the Use of the various Operations employed by the Dentist, in preventing and remedying the Diseases, Defects, and Deformities incident to the several Parts of the Mouth, with such Instructions as will enable the Patient to judge for himself when they ought to be performed: Wherein the most material Objections against Scaling the Teeth, and the Use of artificial Teeth are considered, and a full Refutation of them attempted. To which is subjoined an appendix exhibiting the author's charges for the several operations he performs, &c. By Paul Eurialius Jullion, Surgeon - Dentist.
Jullion, Paul Eurialius.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Pictures
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A baby's dummy (pacifier) and a condom beside a packet of Stimorol chewing gum representing useful products all made from 'rubber'; advertising condoms. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675070i- Pictures
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A comparative advertisement for the benefits of Stimorol chewing gum and condoms featuring a figure standing far left blowing a bubble with one foot resting against the picture border; he looks out at a landscape featuring an eye, a lake, a volcano spurting out hearts with two people running towards each other, and a pair of lips; with a packet of 'stimorol' chewing gum next to a condom in the sky. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675069i- Digital Images
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C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - 'hanging corner' boil