Stories
- Article
Diagnosing the past
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
- Article
Taking the piss
Council cuts have created public-toilet deserts across the UK, limiting journeys and days out for people whose medical conditions mean toilet access is essential. Campaigner Kevin Crowe highlights the issues.
- Article
Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Constipation, etc (2nd series)
Date: 1916-1948Reference: PP/FPW/B.72/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
Constipation
Date: 1906-1948Reference: PP/FPW/B.72Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Film
Constipation.
Date: 1963- Books
Constipation in health and disease / William R. Farrar.
Farrar, William R. (William Ross)Date: 1960 [©1959]- Books
- Online
Constipation in the insane / by J.F. Briscoe.
Briscoe, J.F.Date: [1896]