Stories
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Shame’s long shadow
What is shame and why is it so powerful? A violent sexual assault left Lucia Osborne-Crowley suffocated with shame, but she’s now determined to understand how this overwhelming emotion works.
Catalogue
- Books
Glands and efficient behavior / by Florence Mateer.
Mateer, Florence (Florence Edna), 1887-1961.Date: 1935- Books
Glands in health and disease / by Benjamin Harrow.
Harrow, Benjamin, 1888-1970.Date: [1922], ©1922- Books
Glands and your health / prepared and produced by the Editorial Committee of Science of Life Books.
Date: 1975- Archives and manuscripts
Glands of neck, bronchus, penis, lip, breast, breast dosage sheets, etc A-J
Date: 1934-1935Reference: SA/MCU/B.9Part of: MRC Medical Cyclotron Unit- Pictures
Glands, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels of the head and neck. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1837, after W. Bagg after W.J.E. Wilson.
Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884.Date: [1837]Reference: 642001i