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Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.

Two men, possibly students, carrying home a drunken doctor laid out on a door, verse below. Lithograph.

Thesaurus thesaurorum

The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.

Events around and about !! : February - March 1993 / London Lighthouse.

Bellevue literary review.

De conservanda bona valetudine. Liber Scholac Salernitanae de animi pathematis et remediis quibusdam generalibus. This MS. contains a selection of 562 lines only.

1 volume 48 ll. + 11 bl. ll. obl. 16mo. 8 × 101/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Upper corner of leaf 25 torn away.

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum

Eighteenth Century collections online

The advancement and reformation of modern poetry. A critical discourse. In two parts. The First, Shewing that the Principal Reason why the Ancients excel'd the Moderns in the greater Poetry, was because they mix'd Religion with Poetry. The Second, Proving that by joyning Poetry with the Religion reveal'd to us in Sacred Writ, the Modern Poets might come to equal the Ancient. By Mr Dennis.

A compendium of medicine compiled for use by an unknown Elizabethan practitioner, containing an incomplete English translation of John of Arderne's treatise on fistula, medical recipes, notes on medical astrology, and lists and classifications of diseases and medicaments. With an illustrated guide to urine diagnosis. There are two distinct hands, a fine, cursive secretary hand, with headings in italic, for the treatise on fistula, and the uroscopy section (ff. 5r.-39v., 119r.-22r.), and a more stolid Tudor hand for the rest. Both are probably the work of the same scribe. The treatise on fistula corresponds to a considerable extent to the version printed in 1588, and the appropriate chapter numbers are indicated below.

140 ff. (original foliation 1-4, 1-35, 42-72, 74-107, 109-118, 119-122, 125-136, 138-139 and unnumbered, wanting ff. 36-41, 73, 108, 123, 137) The text is written in dark brown ink, on ruled paper, with headings and underlinings in red. 1 vol., 280 × 220 mm. Of the several leaves which have been cut from the volume, one at least bore a pen and ink sketch of some sort, a fragment of which can be seen at original f. 40v. Contemporary limp vellum binding, with remains of ties.

English Medical Compendium, 16th century

1 print : engraving ; image 29.6 x 39.5 cm

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Bellevue literary review.

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum

English Medical Compendium, 16th century

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

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Bellevue literary review.

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum

English Medical Compendium, 16th century

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

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