Stories
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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The cures and demons of sleep paralysis
Discover the murky past of sleep paralysis, the terrifying disorder once associated with demonic possession
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Kq: Nervous System Diseases - Neurological Conditions - Groups
Date: 1998-1999Reference: SA/WHL/14/32/1Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"The Life of Aelius Aristides a Greek 'neurotic' - for comparison with the infirmities of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Ellis Barker etc"
Date: 1946Reference: PP/FPW/B.226/4/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook - 1
Date: 1910-1941Reference: GC/21/1Part of: Hood, Basil
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Essays chiefly on the theory of paroxysmal diseases of the nervous system / by Marshall Hall.
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.Date: [1849]
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The sensory system of the facial nerve and its symptomatology / by J. Ramsay Hunt.
Hunt, James Ramsay, 1872-1937.Date: 1909