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Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.

Writers: twenty portraits of essayists and novelists. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

The battle of the wigs. An additional canto to Dr. Garth's poem of the dispensary. Occasioned by the disputes between the Fellows and Licentiates of the College of Physicians, in London / [Bonnell Thornton].

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The battle of the wigs. An additional canto to Dr. Garth's poem of the dispensary. Occasioned by the disputes between the Fellows and Licentiates of the College of Physicians, in London / [Bonnell Thornton].