Stories
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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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Inaugural dissertation on the connexion between some diseases of the liver and of the intestines : submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, / by F. Beaugeard.
Date: 1855- Archives and manuscripts
Teaching Slides - dRTA, Dents, and the Large Intestine
Date: c. 1981Reference: PP/WRO/C/4/7Part of: Professor Oliver Wrong
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On nodular disease of the intestine in sheep / by G.M.J. Giles.
Giles, George Michael, 1853-1916.Date: 1892
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The intestinal diseases of infancy and childhood : physiology, hygiene, pathology and therapeutics / by A. Jacobi.
Date: 1887
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On intestinal concretions / by Patrick Henry Watson.
Watson, Patrick Heron, 1832-1907.Date: 1868