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Mask, ritual and fertility

Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.

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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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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 search for a cure for endometriosis

Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.

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  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: he suffers from toothache. Collotype (?), 1907, after Benozzo Gozzoli.
  • The genito-urinary system, after Eustachius, Cheselden, and De Graaf. Etching, 1743.
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a male Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bones (femora) from Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Bruce Conner, 'Fame, October 18', 1989
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