Stories
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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
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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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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
Catalogue
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Observations on the diseases of the uterus : in which are included, remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus, as also on schirrous and cancerous affections of that organ, with the characteristic and distinguishing marks of those diseases which resemble, and are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / by G. Rees.
Rees, George, 1776?-1846.Date: [1805?]- Books
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The operative treatment of hyperplasia of the uterus and vagina : with special reference to the cure of displacements / by S.C. Gordon.
Gordon, Seth Chase, 1830-1921.Date: 1884- Books
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Fibromyomas of the uterus : with report of seven hundred cases studies statistically and pathologically / Ellice McDonald.
McDonald, Ellice, 1876-1955.Date: [1909]- Books
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The history of four cases of chronic inversion of the uterus : with the account of an operation designed as a substitute for amputation / by T. Gaillard Thomas.
Thomas, Theodore Gaillard, 1831-1903.Date: [1869]- Books
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Vaginal hysterectomy for malignant disease of the uterus / by J.E. Janvrin.
Janvrin, J. E. (Joseph Edward), 1839-1911.Date: 1892