Stories
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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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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 19th century, Cornwall
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7944- Books
Introduction of the western concept and practice of hygiene to Japan during the 19th century / Shun-Ichi Yamamoto.
Yamamoto, Shun-Ichi.Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Archives and manuscripts
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Copies of plans, caricatures of staff (1918), photographs of sketches scratched on the windows of the psychiatric ward in the 19th cent., reports of activities at the Army Medical School 1906, and bye-laws, 1953, re Netley military land
Date: Mid 19th Century - mid 20th centuryReference: RAMC/801/7/3Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Camberwell House Asylum
Camberwell House AsylumDate: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MSS.6220-6221