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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Cryptosporidium sp. and other intestinal coccidia : a bibliography / G.C. Cook.
Cook, G. C. (Gordon Charles)Date: 1987- Books
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Plates illustrative of diseases of the intestinal tract / arranged by L.B.V. Wooley.
Wooley, L. B. V.Date: 1883- Archives and manuscripts
(30) Cure of goitre by means of vaccines prepared from intestinal bacteria
Date: c.1913-1927Reference: GC/205/A/4/7Part of: McCarrison, Sir Robert (1878-1960)- Archives and manuscripts
Colitis, dysentery and (mostly obscure) rectal diseases (also on 'intestinal sand' and obscure rectal pain) and some of their symptoms (1st series)
Date: 1903-1948Reference: PP/FPW/B.67/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
(29) Cure of goitre by means of intestinal antiseptics (thymol, beta-naphthol, salol, soured milk)
Date: c.1913-1927Reference: GC/205/A/4/6Part of: McCarrison, Sir Robert (1878-1960)