Stories
- Article
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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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
Catalogue
- Audio
Intestinal upset / Jackie Hardcastle.
Date: 1994
- Digital Images
- Online
Intestinal villi
Liz Hirst, Medical Research Council- Books
Intestinal absorption / T. Hastings Wilson.
Wilson, T. Hastings (Thomas Hastings), 1925-Date: 1962
- Books
- Online
Intestinal surgery / by N. Senn.
Senn, Nicholas, 1844-1908.Date: 1889- Videos
Intestinal absorption.
Date: 1974