Stories
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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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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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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
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Self reliance and the changing physician-patient relationship in nineteenth and twentieth century America / Todd L. Savitt.
Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-Date: 1995- Archives and manuscripts
Professor Oliver Wrong
Professor Oliver Wrong (1925-2012)Date: 1946 - 2016Reference: PP/WRO- Archives and manuscripts
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Papers relating to Lindley Murray (1745 - 1826)
Date: 1795-1967Reference: RET/8/10/1/3Part of: The Retreat Archive- Pictures
A doctor taking the pulse of his patient - convinced that his prescription of a clyster has been successful - unaware that she has eaten the clyster-pipe. Coloured etching by G. Grinagain, 1804.
Grinagain, Giles, active 1804.Date: 2 January 1804Reference: 11831i- Pictures
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A patient asking her doctor his political leanings, he retorts that it varies - depending on who he is treating. Wood engraving after A.T. Smith.
Smith, Albert Talbot, 1877-Reference: 15665i