Stories
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
Catalogue
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Leeching antiques, or, 20th century leechmania / by Anne Mortimer Young.
Young, Anne Mortimer.Date: [1986?]
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007011: Manuscript page from Le Régime du corps depicting the practice of leeching
Date: 22 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/100Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Books
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A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or, : Leech bleeding, in the treatment of a great variety of diseases : including the opinions of eminent practitioners, ancient and modern : with instructions for the process of leeching, and an appendix, delineating the characteristic distinction of true leeches : with directions for their management and preservation / by Rees Price.
Price, Rees.Date: 1822- Books
A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or, leech bleeding, in the treatment of a great variety of diseases : including the opinions of eminent practitioners, ancient and modern; with instructions for the process of leeching, and an appendix, delineating the characteristic distinction of true leeches, with directions for their management and preservation / by Rees Price.
Price, Rees.Date: 1822
- Pictures
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An omnibus full of distraught women due to leeches having escaped from their broken jar. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 12130i