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Images

  • A standing woman, posed with an upraised fan and pointed toe, wearing a fringed shawl, in front of a painted backdrop in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A standing woman, holding aloft a fan, wearing a fringed shawl, in front of a painted backdrop in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • The post-boy : from Saturday January 25. to Tuesday January 28. 1723. Numb. 5386, On Saturday arrived the mail from France : Madrid, Jan. 16. N.S. The catholick King, Philip V. having taken a resolution to make an absolute renunciation of the crown of Spain, in favour of his eldest son.
  • Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Hispano-Moresque pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • A barber wearing a long cloak is playing the guitar. Coloured engraving by Juan de la Cruz after Manuel de la Cruz.
  • A cartoon figure of a man with a moustache with 4 speech bubbles above his head containing images of women with the label 'Adventurer' in Spanish; an advertisement for the fight against AIDS by Prisa, OPS/OMS, Sespas and Procets. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man sits alone huddled on some steps representing a man with AIDS who is marginalised from society; advertisement for the National drug and AIDS programme by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo [Miinistry of Public Health]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • An auto-da-fé in Spain: the accused are led in procession by the Inquisitors to their trial. Engraving, 1749.
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Catalogue

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    Veinticinco años de medicina española en México / Germán Somolinos d'Ardois ; comentario por el Dr. Ignacio Chávez.

    Somolinos d'Ardois, Germán, 1911-1973 | Date: 1966
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    Historia de la enfermería en España : desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días / coordinadora, Francisca Hernández Martín.

    | Date: [1996], ©1996
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    Personajes para una historia de la psicología en España / Milagros Saiz, Dolores Saiz (coordinadoras).

    | Date: 1996
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    Andrés Piquer : filosofía y medicina en la España del siglo XVIII / Manuel Mindán.

    Mindán Manero, Manuel. | Date: 1991
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    De reis der Malaria-Commissie van den volkenbond naar Spanje, 13 Augustus - 7 September 1925 / door N.H. Swellengrebel.

    Swellengrebel, N. H. (Nicolaas Hendrik), 1885- | Date: [1926]
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