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Our psychics are not licensed physicians or accredited attorneys and as such, the information they provide you with during your reading should never be regarded as legal. The cabinet of curiosities is like the inside of some mad victorian scientists head. Aug 18, 2018 vintageantique medical text or reference books from the. The owners, who work together in the antiques and interior design business, have made an art form out of creating unique displays of collectables in victorian museum cases. A portrait of domestic life in victorian england by judith flanders, the invention of murd.
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Author jan bondeson cites anomalies and curiosities of medicine as an inspiration, but rather than taking the encyclopedic approach of that book concentrates on a few topics. Unsolved murders of women in late victorian london. There is absolutely no evidence that victorian doctors used vibrators to stimulate orgasm in women as a medical technique, asserts the paper, written by two historians at georgia tech. Oct 24, 2016 victorian cocktails and medical curiosities in where else. Joseph listers quest to transform the grisly world of victorian medicine. A cabinet of medical curiosities book by jan bondeson. They can all be found in the collection of the museum vrolik in the department of anatomy and embryology of the university of amsterdam. Aug 06, 2008 seeking collectors of medical curiosities, ephemera, or artifacts. Bondeson writes an informative and entertaining look back at some of the strange, humorous, and tragic results of our forebears ignorance and superstition.
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