Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
Catalogue
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Life and death in Georgian England : catalogue of an exhibition held in the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, 2 April - 23 May 1997 / [compiled by Dorothea Rowse].
Rowse, Dorothea.Date: [1995?]- Archives and manuscripts
English recipe book, later 17th century
Date: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.9179- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i- Pictures
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A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.
Reference: 22994i- Books
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Doctors of Samuel Johnson and his court / by James P. Warbasse.
Warbasse, James Peter, 1866-1957.Date: 1908