Stories
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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.
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Living with invisible illness
What happens when the signs of your illness are invisible to the rest of the world? Hannah Turner describes the daily struggles of living with invisible illness.
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Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
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Some calculations of the number of accidents or deaths which happen in consequence of parturition : and of the proportions of male to female children, as well as of twins, monstrous productions, and children that are dead-born ... With an attempt to ascertain the chance of life at different periods ... and likewise the proportion of natives to the rest of the inhabitants of London. In a letter to Samuel Foart Simmons ... Read at the Royal Society, May 10, 1781, and published in the Philosophical transactions, vol. LXXI / by Robert Bland.
Bland, R. (Robert), 1730-1816.Date: 1781- Pictures
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Haymakers sitting down in the shade of a hay-rick to eat. Etching by J.J. Veyrassat, ca. 1857.
Veyrassat, Jules Jacques, 1828-1893.Date: 1857Reference: 485354i- Books
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The question of rest for women during menstruation / By Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D. ... The Boylston prize essay of Harvard University for 1876. Illustrated.
Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906.Date: 1877 [©1877]- Archives and manuscripts
Annual reports
Date: 1917-1972Reference: SA/NFN/C/1Part of: Nation's Fund for Nurses- Pictures
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Papeterie Darblay, Essonne, Ile de France: mechanized, shaft-driven paper-making machines attended by workmen. Wood engraving by H. Linton, 1859, after E. Bourdelin.
Bourdelin, Emile.Date: [1859]Reference: 40502i