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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The so much fam'd tablets.
Date: [1680]- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Prints: BW&Co Staff, Explorers
Date: c.1885-c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/DM/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Medicinae praxeos systema, ex Academiae Edinburgenae disputationibus inauguralibus praecipue depromptum, et secundum naturae ordinem digestum. Curante Carolo Webster, M. D. Valetudinarii Pub. Edin. Med. Alter. E Coll. Reg. Med. ET Societ. Reg. Med. Edin. Hujusque Ad Acta Edenda A Secretis. Tomus Primus.
Webster, Charles, 1750-1795.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The general practise of physicke : Conteyning all invvard and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident vnto them, euen from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote. Also by what meanes (with the help of God) they may be remedied: very meete and profitable, not onely for all physitions, chirurgians, apothecaries, and midwiues, but for all other estates whatsoeuer; the like whereof as yet in English hath not beene published. Compiled and written by the most famous and learned doctour Christopher Wirtzung, in the Germane tongue, and now translated into English, in diuers places corrected, and with many additions illustrated and augmented. By Iacob Mosan Germane, doctor in the same facultie.
Wirsung, Christof, 1500?-1571Date: 1617- Books
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Medical researches: being an enquiry into the nature and origin of hysterics in the female constitution, and into the Distinction between that Disease and Hypochondriac or Nervous Disorders. Comprehending A Specification of the characteristic Resinement and Excellence of the Female Constitution and Character. A Research into the Materiality of these Occult Powers and Principles of Activity commonly called life, in the Human Frame. - Into the real Existence of an Image of our whole Organical Frame, in the Seat and Fountain of its Powers, and the physical Probability of there being a Regeneration of that Image in Organs formed for the Transfusion and Multiplication of Individual Life. - The true Nature, Symptoms, and Indications of Cure of the Hysterical Disease. - The Abuse of Sugar, as a Cause of its encreased Frequency, and the encreased Frequency of Infant Mortality. - The precise Seat of Animal Heat. - The Structure of the Blood. - Practical Hints, relative both to the Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Diseases, and the Management of them, &c. &c. Together with The Substance of a Discourse, proving that the Motions of the Blood and Animal Fluids do not depend on the Impulses of the Heart upon the Blood, but must be referred to other Causes, and particularly to an Animal Modification of that universal Principle which is the common Cause of all Organisation, and of all organical Motions in Bodies. To which are added, Four letters to Sir Hildebrand Jacob, on the Materiality-Density-And Activity of light; and on air. By Andrew Wilson, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, and Physician to the Medical Asylum, London.
Wilson, Andrew, 1718-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]