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The search for a cure for endometriosis

Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological 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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Thousands of years of women’s pain

Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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  • Drosophila ovaries stained for actin/purple and DNA/orange.
  • Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment / by T. Spencer Wells.
  • Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment / by T. Spencer Wells.
  • Dissection of the female abdomen, showing the kidneys, gravid (?) uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes, with the arteries and blood vessels indicated in red. Coloured lithograph by J. Roux, 1822.
  • The female reproductive system: dissection showing the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes, the intestines and bladder, with a detail showing the clitoris. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.
  • Turner's syndrome karyotype 45,XO. This female lacks the second X chromosome present in the normal karyotype. Symptoms include short stature, neck wbbing, elbow deformity, widely spaced nipples with shield chest, primary amenorrhea, sexual infantilism and sterility. The ovaries are reduced to fibrous streaks. Also known as XO syndrome or ovarian short-stature syndrome.
  • Neonatal mouse ovary batik
  • Right Fallopian tube and ovary
  • A diseased ovary. Watercolour, c.1824.
  • Colloid cancer originating in the ovary
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