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While his sense of body shame meant the personal side of his life was unfulfilled, Chris’s career was rewarding. His own childhood experiences gave him profound empathy for the children he worked with.
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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Freemason's Charity for Female Children, Southwark, London: facade. Coloured etching by J. Pass after himself, 1814.
Pass, John, active 1797-1815.Date: 1 September 1814Reference: 24475i
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Royal Freemasons' school for Female Children, Wandsworth, London. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1851.
Date: 1851Reference: 24476i- Books
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A list of the patrons, officers, and governors, of the Freemasons' Charity, for Female Children, situate near the Obelisk, St. George's Fields. To which is prefixed, a brief account of the institution.
Freemasons' Charity for Female Children (St. George's Fields, London, England)Date: 1799
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A list of the patrons, officers, and governors, of the Freemasons' Charity, for Female Children, situate near the Obelisk, St. George's Fields : to which is prefixed, a brief account of the institution.
Freemasons' Charity for Female Children.Date: 1799- Books
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An essay on the management, nursing and diseases of children, from the birth: and on the treatment and diseases of pregnant and lying-in women: With Remarks ON The Domestic Practice Of Medicine. The second edition, revised and considerably enlarged. To which is now added, the treatment and diseases of children At More Advanced Periods Of Childhood: With Observations ON Mothers Nursing Their Children. The whole designed for Domestic Use, and purposely adaped for Female Comprehension, in a manner perfectly consistent with the Delicacy of the Sex; and suited to the Medical Student and Younger Practitioner. By William Moss, Surgeon To The Liverpool Lying-IN Charity.
Moss, William.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]