Stories
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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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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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
Catalogue
- Journals
Obstetrics and gynecology.
Date: 1953-- Journals
Obstetrics.
Date: ©1902-1917- Archives and manuscripts
Obstetrics
Date: 1858Reference: MS.2944Part of: Horne, John (d.c.1912)- Archives and manuscripts
Obstetrics
Date: 1972-1976Reference: PP/DOL/A/1/23Part of: Doll, Sir Richard (1912-2005)- Archives and manuscripts
Obstetrics
Date: 1976-1985Reference: SA/PAT/D/38Part of: The Patients Association