Stories
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
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Obstetrics in ancient China / Kan-wen Ma.
Ma, Kan-Wen.Date: [1983]- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with B Chatterjee
Date: Dec 1963 - Jan 1964Reference: PENROSE/2/24/3/5Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Videos
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The management of pre-eclampsia.
Date: 1979- Books
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A sketch of the history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860 / by J. Whitridge Williams.
Williams, J. Whitridge (John Whitridge), 1866-1931.Date: [1903]- Books
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The history of four cases of chronic inversion of the uterus : with the account of an operation designed as a substitute for amputation / by T. Gaillard Thomas.
Thomas, Theodore Gaillard, 1831-1903.Date: [1869]