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Anniversaries
; ...Jacques Tati (Tatischeff), actor and film director, 1908; John Winston Lennon, composer and singer, 1940. Deaths: Gabriel Fallopius, anatomist, 1562; Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Marxist revolutionary, captured and shot 1967. On this day: Captain James Cook went...
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Scientific Christians
; ...includes, to name a few: geologists Bishop Stensen, D'Halloy,Hauy, De Beaumont, and De Lapporent; biologists Spallanzani, Fallopius, Mendel, Muller;physicists Ampere, Volta, Ohm, Coulomb, Galvani; chemists Pasteur, Dumas, Lavoisier;astronomers Copernicus...
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Highest teen pregnancy rate.(News)
; ...a plan opposed by teaching unions and school governors. The first documented description and trial of a condom was in the 16th century when Italian anatomist Gabrielle Fallopius claimed to have made a linen condom to protect against syphilis.
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A portrait in history: Dr Thomas Willis
; ...injection studies, which employed india ink and other fluids. Before Willis, a basal arterial circle had been described by Fallopius, Casserio, Vesling, and Wepfer. Willis acknowledged these previous studies and realized the functional importance of the circle...
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Annual Chemical Congress of the Royal Society of Chemistry: First plastic condom rolls back tradition
; ...13th-century Welsh castle. According to Gillian Clark, a historian from Liverpool University, the 16th-century anatomist Gabrielle Fallopius wrote of using a linen sheath to protect against disease. The word condom is loosely associated with a Dr Condom, or Conton...
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Wait darling, while I apply the croc dung: The Listener In this week's selection from the best of BBC radio we learn how contraception has ranged from the bizarre to the downright lethal; From Crocodile Dung to Electrocution BBC Radio 4; Caroline Quentin Actress and broadcaster
; ...infections, particularly syphilis. The first published descriptions and trials were recorded by the Italian anatomist Gabriela Fallopius. He claims to have invented a condom made from linen and did trials on 1,100 men, none of whom contracted syphilis. CQ Where...
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Out of the Wallet And Into the Smithsonian
; ...prophylactics were used hundreds of years ago for reasons eerily familiar to contemporary society. "The Italian anatomist Gabriel Fallopius was the first to experiment with condoms in the 16th century," he says. "At that time they were made from finely woven linen...
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. . . I'm In The Mood For Love
; ...since the 16th century and were invented by physician Gabriel Fallopius. Correct, the whizz kid on the tubes. He was, by all accounts...common cold, was a sexually transmitted disease. Since good old Fallopius they have been known by the English- speaking world as "French...
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Centuries of searching before birth of safe contraception.(Features)
; ...prohibited by the church and by law, but herbal potions are used to bring on abortion. 1500 The sheath is invented by Gabriello Fallopius, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua, Italy, to protect against VD. It is made of linen, dried animal bladder...
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fun facts.(Features)
; ...companies. He invented the diesel engine - which bears his name and made him a millionaire. 16th century Italian anatomist Gabriel Fallopius gave his name to the fallopian tubes in which eggs travel from the ovary to the uterus. His name is Mud is a derogatory expression...
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