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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
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A brief history of contraception
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- In pictures
Sex and syphilis
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Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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- Archives and manuscripts
KtIn: Gynaecology: Photodynamic Therapy
Date: 1999Reference: SA/WHL/14/35/4Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Ephemera
For the benefit of the afflicted : the late celebrated Dr. Ratcliffe's most wonderful cleansing and strengthening drops, for all sorts of gleets and seminal weaknesses and imbecilities of the generative parts and faculties, preventing miscarriages in women; they also cleanse and strengthen the reins, kidnies, and bladder, cure weak backs, stranguries, gravel, and stoppage of the urine, and are a certain cure for the bleeding piles, and for which it has gained such repute, that near 90,000 bottles have been sold since April 1743, that they were first published.
Date: [1775?]- Ephemera
Given gratis the following treatises of venereal relicks, and a gleet : Of persons on a journey, curing themselves of the venereal distemper, & a gleet, whilst they only bait at their inn, without the knowledge of any one, with far less trouble, & much easier, than they ever possibly can, by taking physick at home. With the cause of a broken constitution ...
Date: [between 1700 and 1750?]- Books
Venereal diseases : their clinical aspect and treatment : with an atlas of 106 colour and 21 half-tone illustrations / by J. E. R. McDonagh.
McDonagh, J. E. R. (James Eustace Radclyffe), 1881-Date: 1920- Ephemera
Dr. Baker, name on the door (No.1) Adam-and-Eve-Court, Oxford-Street, informs the public, that he continues to dispose of his medicines, so famous for their salutary effects, at the usual prices, viz. the Anti-Venereal Elixir, at 3s per bottle; which will radically cure every symptom of the venereal disease, inveterate scurvy, rheumatism, old standing sores, and eruptions of the skin ...
Baker, Dr.Date: [1770?]