Stories
- Book extract
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.
- Article
The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
- Pictures
- Online
A faithful unmarried couple, a man with his 3 faithful wives, a couple sitting in a STD clinic and a man receiving an injection with sterilised equipment; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677337i- Archives and manuscripts
Fletcher, Charles Montague (1911-1995), epidemiologist
Fletcher, C. M. (Charles Montague), 1911-Date: 1886 - 1996Reference: PP/CMF- Ephemera
Hospitals equipment ephemera. Box 2.
- Ephemera
Hospitals equipment ephemera. Box 1.
- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 35.