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Hysteria

Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.

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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens

In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.

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A message from my skin

As wildfires threatened Seattle, resident Sydney Baker experienced corresponding flares of acne and rashes. Her skin was telling her something about the health of the world around her.

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  • Baldwin's Nervous Pills : cures nervousness, irritability of temper, want of strength and energy, fear, dread, neuralgia, hysteria, disturbed sleep, melancholy, insomnia, and all nerve pain and diseases.
  • Tortoise: paraphymosis, irritation of cloaca
  • Atoquinol (allyl phenylcinchoninester) : the most active eliminant of irritant or toxic acid waste without harmful action on digestive or other systems.
  • Curb & spavin cure : no more torturing with hot irons or irritating blisters : a safe easily applied and effective remedy.
  • The face of a man suffering from acute eczema and dermatitis, caused by irritant drug applications and poison ivy. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
  • Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter].
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