Stories
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
Catalogue
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La médecine sous la Révolution : Hospice de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 30 septembre - 7 octobre 1956 / [Guy Godlewski].
Godlewski, Guy.Date: [1956]- 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- Pictures
Pierre-Louis Laideguive. Etching by Ch. Waltner after M.Q. de Latour.
La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788.Date: [187?-?]Reference: 2136642i- Books
Les sources de la démographie historique française dans les archives publiques (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) / par René Le Mée.
Le Mée, René.Date: 1967- Pictures
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Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
S. J.Date: 1791Reference: 15873i