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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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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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  • The London School of Medicine, Physiology Laboratory. Women students at work, 1899.
  • Group Portrait at the London School of Tropical Medicine.
  • Ehemera from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection held in the Library & Archives Serviice at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: British Services medical officers taking the course in tropical medicine and parasitology. Photograph by T.H. Everitt & Son, 1943.
  • Design for a diploma awarded by the London School of Tropical Medicine: a young man is standing by a map of the world; a forest in the background. Drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Louis Sambon, Lecturer at the London School of Tropical Medicine. Reproduction of a pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • Compilation of posters from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection in the Library & Archives at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine : originally designed as a posterboard for the exhibition HIV/AIDS: controlling and eradicating a modern epidemic, 2014.
  • Compilation of posters from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection in the Library & Archives at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine : originally designed as a posterboard for the exhibition HIV/AIDS: controlling and eradicating a modern epidemic, 2014.
  • A woman with her eyes closed holding the face of a man representing a warning about AIDS; advertisement by the School of Medicine at the University of Miami. Lithograph.
  • School of the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, Avenue Road, London: seen from the road. Coloured lithograph by E. T. Dolby after H. E. Kendall, 1838.
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