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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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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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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels

In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.

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The pain that punished feminists

In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.

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  • Diseases of the intestine
  • Diseases of the large intestine
  • Dissection of diseased intestines. Watercolour, ca. 1851.
  • A piece of diseased intestine (?). Watercolour, 18--.
  • Lymphoid Polyposis of Small Intestine Associated with Immune Deficiency Disease
  • Dissection of a diseased intestine. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Typhoid ulceration of the small intestine, in an early stage of the disease
  • A section of diseased intestine. Watercolour, 18--, after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1827.
  • Dissection of a diseased intestine, showing signs of typhus. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Dissection of a diseased intestine, showing signs of typhus. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
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