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  • The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • Skeletons approach a group of terrified, fashionably-dressed ladies and summon them to the cemetery. Etching by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • A fashionable lady asking her doctor what ailments he can invent for her - so that she convince her husband to take her to Cannes. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Fatima, the wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis, rises to greet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu while her two daughters remain seated. Stipple engraving after T. Stothard.
  • Fatima, the wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis, rises to greet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu while her two daughters remain seated. Stipple engraving by J. Parker after T. Stothard.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Six sailors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait on the deck of H.M.S. St. George. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Six sailors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait on the deck of H.M.S. St. George. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • French prisoners of war, one in drag, performing a show at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • French prisoners of war, one in drag, performing a show at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • A sailor in drag sits on the deck of a ship in bright sunlight. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A sailor in drag sits on the deck of a ship in bright sunlight. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Visitors to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London in Chiswick, among whom is a man who rushes off believing he has an attack of the cholera. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1831.
  • The blind school, Southwark: with a bustling street scene. Lithograph by L. Haghe, ca.1835, after J. Johnson.
  • As a young woman looks at the dress she wears in the mirror, the reflection she sees is of a dead woman lying with her head back.
  • Rabies vaccination in Pasteur's laboratory in Paris. Lithograph by F. Pirodon, 188-, after L.-L. Gsell.
  • Rabies vaccination in Pasteur's laboratory in Paris. Lithograph by F. Pirodon, 188-, after L.-L. Gsell.
  • Rabies vaccination in Pasteur's laboratory in Paris. Lithograph by F. Pirodon, 188-, after L.-L. Gsell.