Stories
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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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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
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Plates illustrative of diseases of the intestinal tract / arranged by L.B.V. Wooley.
Wooley, L. B. V.Date: 1883- Books
Cryptosporidium sp. and other intestinal coccidia : a bibliography / G.C. Cook.
Cook, G. C. (Gordon Charles)Date: 1987- Books
The intestinal diseases of infancy and childhood : physiology, hygiene, pathology and therapeutics / by A. Jacobi.
Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919.Date: 1887- Archives and manuscripts
(30) Cure of goitre by means of vaccines prepared from intestinal bacteria
Date: c.1913-1927Reference: GC/205/A/4/7Part of: McCarrison, Sir Robert (1878-1960)- Books
Diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract / Asher Winkelstein.
Winkelstein, Asher, 1894-Date: 1942