Stories
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
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Faces from the archives
Meet some of the lesser-known but no less extraordinary figures in the history of medicine, through a series of original portraits.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
Catalogue
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The return of syphilis : childhood memory.
Date: 2006- Books
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Die ältesten Schriftsteller über die Lustseuche in Deutschland von 1495 bis 1510, nebst mehreren Anecdotis späterer Zeit, gesammelt und mit literarhistorischen Notizen und einer kurzen Darstellung der epidemischen Syphilis in Deutschland / herausgegeben von C.H. Fuchs.
Fuchs Conrad Heinrich, 1803-1855.Date: 1843- Pictures
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Diseased tissue on the face, shoulders arms and torso of a man suffering from psoriasis and possibly syphilis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1866.
D'Alton, Christopher, active 1847-1871.Date: [18]66Reference: 575157i- Books
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Mélanges de chirurgie, ou Histoire médicochirurgicale de l'Hotel-Dieu de Lyon depuis sa fondation jusqu'a nos jours : avec l'histoire spéciale de la syphilis dans cet hospice, et compte-rendu de la pratique chirurgicale de cet hôpital pendant six années, 1838-1843 / par J. -E. Petrequin.
Date: 1845- Books
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Three lectures delivered at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1886 / by Robert J. Lee.
Lee, Robert James, 1841-1924.Date: 1886