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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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The ‘undesirable epileptic’

Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.

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The island of unclaimed bodies

In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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  • A dictionary of hygiène and public health : comprising sanitary chemistry, engineering, and legislation, the dietetic value of foods, and the detection of adulterations, on the plan of the "Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique" of Professor Ambroise Tardieu / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.
  • Harmless coloring for food stuffs : chocolate brown / A. Boake, Roberts & Co. Ltd.
  • Harmless coloring for food stuffs : chocolate brown / A. Boake, Roberts & Co. Ltd.
  • Rabies: check for stowaway animals to prevent the introduction of rabies into the British Isles. Colour lithograph, 1978.
  • Rabies: a skull representing death from rabies imported into Great Britain. Colour lithograph, 1976.
  • Viceregal decree : prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from archives and libraries, and their sale to biscuit-makers, rocket-makers, apothecaries, shopkeepers, and the like, for consumption in their trades : Mexico City, December 10, 1799 / Miguel Joseph de Azanza.
  • Viceregal decree : prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from archives and libraries, and their sale to biscuit-makers, rocket-makers, apothecaries, shopkeepers, and the like, for consumption in their trades : Mexico City, December 10, 1799 / Miguel Joseph de Azanza.
  • Rabies: a cat and a dog, at risk of bringing rabies into the British Isles from France. Colour lithograph, 1976.
  • Rabies: a cat and a dog, at risk of bringing rabies into the British Isles from Spain or Latin America. Colour lithograph, 1976.
  • Rabies: a cat and a dog, at risk of bringing rabies into the British Isles from Germany. Colour lithograph, 1976.
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