Stories
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The gym of cartoon men
In men, body dysmorphia can be expressed as ‘bigorexia’ – the belief that your body is too weak and thin – or anorexia. Andrew McMillan explores two sides of the same coin.
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The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
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The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo
Darling of 19th-century American freak shows, Evatima Tardo remained serene as she withstood crucifixion and the bites of poisonous snakes. But she took the secret behind her abilities to her grave.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
Catalogue
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Iron in biochemistry and medicine / edited by A. Jacobs and M. Worwood.
Date: 1974
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Ingestion and excretion of iron in health / by Ralph Stockman.
Stockman, Ralph.Date: [1897]- Books
[Iron bed] / Tallulah Fontaine.
Fontaine, TallulahDate: [2017]- Books
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Essays concerning iron and steel: the first, containing observations on American sand-iron: the second, observations, founded on experiments, on common iron-ore, with the Method of reducing it first into Pig or Sow-Metal, and then into Bar-Iron; on the Sort of Iron proper to be converted into good Steel, and the Method of refining that Bar-Steel by Fusion, so as to render it fit for the more curious Purposes: With an Account of Mr. Reaumur's Method of softening Cast-Iron; and an Appendix, Discovering a more perfect Method of Charring Pit-Coal, so as to render it a proper Succedaneum for charred Wood-Coal. By Henry Horne.
Horne, Henry.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]
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Various methods of torture: one victim lies in the "iron coffin of Lissa" while others are tied to the pillory or writhe in pain on the ground. Woodcut.
Reference: 43362i