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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.
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The speech of Boissy D'Anglas, in the French convention. On Pluviose 11th. And adopted as the declaration and sentiments of the French people on the conditions of peace.
France. Convention nationale.Date: 1795]- Books
La médecine sous la Révolution : Hospice de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 30 septembre - 7 octobre 1956 / [Guy Godlewski].
Godlewski, Guy.Date: [1956]- Pictures
Pierre-Louis Laideguive. Etching by Ch. Waltner after M.Q. de Latour.
La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788.Date: [187?-?]Reference: 2136642i
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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.
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Curious remarks and observations in physics, anatomy, chirurgery, chemistry, botany, and medicine. Extracted from the history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Containing such useful discoveries as have not been collected by other writers on the same subjects. By Dr. Peter Templeman.
Académie royale des sciences (France)Date: MDCCLIII. - MDCCLIV. [1753-54]