Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

Caring for your pet / Seven Seas Veterinary Division.

The road entering Bath from the south side of the bridge. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.

A 'gay' dog. Photographic postcard, ca. 1911.

A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

A man and wife and their two children and dog climbing up a grassy knoll as exercise in the fresh air. Colour lithograph by Hulls.

The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving by R. Acon, 1829, after T. H. Shepherd.

A doctor out hunting: attacked by the hounds, having fallen from his horse. Coloured etching by J.H., 1842.

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Hendrik van der Burgh worked in the Hague. Like many European painters of his time he had a close attachment to Dutch paintings of the Golden Age--the seventeenth century—which he used as the model for the setting in the present work. The stillness of the spacious room in a surgeon-apothecary's house is disturbed by the reaction of the patient to the pain of the operation: as the operator digs into the gum, the patient kicks out and sends his own basket of eggs across the floor. A dog barks at the disturbance. The painting is recorded as having been auctioned in Amsterdam in 1817

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 56 x approximately 71.2 cm (width irregular)

Interior of a Dutch house with an operator attending to a man's teeth. Oil painting by Hendrik van der Burgh.

1 drawing : watercolour, with gouache ; image 21.2 x 18.4 cm

Concerned parents trying to coax a sick child to take some liquid while a dog waits patiently. Watercolour by W.H. Margetson, 1901.

Leaflet suggesting ways to improve dogs' behaviour. Printed in dark blue and red ink on white paper. The front page features red type on a blue background with a cartoon of a tormented dog with its front paws in its ears in a white rectangle in the centre of the page. The main text is punctuated with cartoons.

Veterinary medical ephemera. Dogs. Box 2

1 folded sheet (6 p.) : ill. (part col.) ; 21 cm.

Constant barking can be avoided : here are some helpful tips / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office, Scottish Office.

A first step in the analysis of the dog's ventricular electrocardiogram : preliminary communication / by Thomas Lewis.

Luke 10.34 tells us that the Samaritan "bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine"

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Interior of a Dutch house with an operator attending to a man's teeth. Oil painting by Hendrik van der Burgh.

Concerned parents trying to coax a sick child to take some liquid while a dog waits patiently. Watercolour by W.H. Margetson, 1901.

Constant barking can be avoided : here are some helpful tips / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office, Scottish Office.

A first step in the analysis of the dog's ventricular electrocardiogram : preliminary communication / by Thomas Lewis.

The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

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Dogs

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Interior of a Dutch house with an operator attending to a man's teeth. Oil painting by Hendrik van der Burgh.

Concerned parents trying to coax a sick child to take some liquid while a dog waits patiently. Watercolour by W.H. Margetson, 1901.

Constant barking can be avoided : here are some helpful tips / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office, Scottish Office.

A first step in the analysis of the dog's ventricular electrocardiogram : preliminary communication / by Thomas Lewis.

The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

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