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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis

Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.

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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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Appointments with plants

In our ‘always on’ culture, poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett find a route away from screens – by following the ways of the trees and plants outside.

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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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  • Allen & Hanbury, Vacuum pans
  • Vacuum regulator used for milking cows
  • Vacuum line used for milking cows
  • A W L Tube with Vacuum Regulator
  • Milking machine: vacuum regulator
  • Milking machine: vacuum regulator valve
  • Milking machine: vacuum regulator valve
  • Milking machine: vacuum pump oil reservoir
  • Part of vacuum pump used for milking cows
  • The Electrical Vacuum Tube: W.D. Ross demonstrates its medical use with a woman patient. Photograph, ca. 1922.
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