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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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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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The case for safe skin bleaching
Skin bleaching tends to attract a negative press for a whole host of reasons. But when used to treat medical problems, its positive side becomes clear.
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The sum of my parts
Testing positive for a rogue gene meant Jessica Furseth was more susceptible to cancer. After the years of anger and dissociation from her body that followed, she began to pick up the pieces.
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Epilepsy / eye movements.
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[Article from the Revue internationale de clinique et de thérapeutique (pages 487-8 - no date) entitled: Curiosités médico-chirurgicales : un cyclope humain - a single eyed infant, also lacking a nose].
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Aplasia of the papilla and retinal vessels with a peculiar anomaly at the macula in eyes otherwise normal / by Alexander Duane.
Duane, A. (Alexander), 1858-1926.Date: 1903
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Total coloboma of the optic disc without affection of the choroid : total iridemia, ectropion uvea, and retained pupillary membrane : the clinical record of a series of congenital malformations of the eye / by Burton Chance.
Chance, Burton Kollock, 1868-1965.Date: 1904
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History of iridotomy : knife-needle vs. scissors - description of author's v-shaped method / by S. Lewis Ziegler.
Ziegler, S. Lewis (Samuel Lewis), 1861-1926.Date: 1908