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Vulvagate: why the words we use for our bodies matter

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 fluff35

Is it OK to use 'vagina' to cover all the internal and external female sexual organs? 'Vulvagate' reminds us of a lost world of passages, gates and doors.

Tagged Galen, Jane Sharp, Twitter, Vesalius, Vulvagate5 Comments
Bad History, food, Hippocrates, womb

Hippocrates – and watercress?

May 6, 2017August 9, 2017 fluff35

The name of ‘Hippocrates’ is still being used to sell products – alternative medicine, weird diets, and ... watercress?

Tagged alternative medicine, army, cardamon, cress, Cyrus, father of medicine, gynaecology, hospital, marketing, On Ulcers, soldiers, Twitter, Xenophon4 Comments

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