Stories
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
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A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
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Patent of Nehemiah Grew : medicine.
Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.Date: 1857- Books
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Patent of Timothy Byfield : medicine.
Byfield, T. (Timothy)Date: 1857- Books
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Patent of Thomas Grent : baths.
Grent, Thomas.Date: 1857- Books
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Patent of Robert Eaton : medicine styptic.
Eaton, Robert.Date: 1857