A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• A fun history of yard sales.
• Sartre, Camus, and the FBI.
• Color photos of Cairo in 1910.
• Mormon-themed aphrodisiacs.
• Manly slang from the 19th century.
• Chasing the White House Cézannes
• Puritans and their wacky baby names.
• The Real Mermaids of San Marcos, Texas.
• How a 90s pop song improved asthma treatment.
• What does testicle size have to do with fatherhood?
• Alcoholics Anonymous and the “geographical cure.“
• Chinese unearth ancient tomb of “female prime minister.”
• Buzzfeed has some fun with vintage French medical posters.

* “Gonorrhea can Deprive a Woman of the Joy of Motherhood” – Image courtesy of Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Historical Library. Yale University