Stories
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
- Article
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.
- Article
Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red
Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
Catalogue
- Journals
- Online
Bulletin of the history of medicine
Date: 1939-- Journals
- Online
History of science
Date: 1962-- Journals
Bulletin - Academy of Medicine of Cleveland.
- Books
- Online
Transactions of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society of London / edited by W. H. Judd.
Date: 1839
- Books
- Online
La Médecine éclairée par les sciences physiques, ou Journal des découvertes relatives aux différentes parties de l'art de guérir, rédigé / par M. Fourcroy.
Date: 1791-92