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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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Can our sexual desires be transformed?

In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.

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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances

In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.

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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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  • Table illustrating the 'laws of variation', a fold out illustration after p.168, Chapter V of The Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin, Imp: London: John Murray, 1859
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • General and descriptive anatomy of the domestic animals / by John Gamgee and James Law. Vol. 1, pt. [1]-2.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu lady with her daughter-in-law. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law and grandchildren, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu lady with her daughter-in-law. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law and grandchildren, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Portrait of Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1814-1900
  • Portrait of Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1814-1900
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