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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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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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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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
Catalogue
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Digesting ritual : the remains of Extispicy in the Everyday and Our palace of Intestines for Stag(e) Hill, Ivy Art Centre, University of Surrey, July 2019 / Amanda Couch, Adam Alston ; designed by Kristen Fraser.
Couch, AmandaDate: 2019
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The intestines. Engraving, 1686.
Date: [1686]Reference: 30018i- Books
Diseases of the intestines / by I. Boas.
Boas, Ismar, 1858-1938.Date: 1904- Books
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Memoirs of the life of Barton Booth, Esq; with his character. To which are added several poetical pieces, written by himself, viz. Translations from Horace, songs, Odes, &c. To which is likewise annex'd, The Case of Mr. Booth's last Illness, and what was observ'd (particularly with regard to the Quick-Silver found in his Intestines) upon Opening of his Body, in the Presence of Sir Hans Sloan, by Mr. Alexander Small, Surgeon. Publish'd by an intimate acquaintance of Mr. Booth, by consent of his widow.
Date: [1733]- Books
Tumors of the intestines / by David A. Wood.
Wood, D. A. (David A.)Date: 1967