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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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Ways appear

While his sense of body shame meant the personal side of his life was unfulfilled, Chris’s career was rewarding. His own childhood experiences gave him profound empathy for the children he worked with.

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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

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How your hairdresser could save your life

Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.

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  • A cow's teat orifice showing abnormality
  • A cow's teat orifice showing abnormality
  • A cow's teat orifice showing abnormality
  • A cow's teat orifice showing abnormality
  • A cow's teat orifice showing abnormality
  • A cow's teat orifice showing abnormality
  • Two human heads with abnormality, one frontal view with no nose and one profile with large nose
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • Anne-Marie Hérig, a girl with a skin abnormality; the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below, an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge after J. de Sève.
  • Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
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