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  • Essays and observations, physical and literary : read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them.
  • Essays and observations, physical and literary : read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them.
  • Essays and observations, physical and literary : read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them.
  • The weekly medico-chirurgical and philosophical magazine : containing a select variety of the most recent intelligence relating to the different branches of medical sciences, &c. &c. &c.
  • The weekly medico-chirurgical and philosophical magazine : containing a select variety of the most recent intelligence relating to the different branches of medical sciences, &c. &c. &c.
  • Medical observations and inquiries.
  • Medical observations and inquiries.
  • Medical observations and inquiries.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine-flask. Oil painting attributed to P. de Bloot.
  • Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • Group of model figures showing a worshipper.
  • C15 Chinese medical textbook, Foreword
  • Adiantum venustum D.Don Adiantaceae (although placed by some in Pteridaceae). Himalayan maidenhair fern. Small evergreen hardy fern. Distribution: Afghanistan-India. It gains its vernacular name from the wiry black stems that resemble hairs. Adiantum comes from the Greek for 'dry' as the leaflets remain permanently dry. The Cherokee used A. pedatum to make their hair shiny. Henry Lyte (1576), writing on A. capillus-veneris, notes that it restores hair, is an antidote to the bites of mad dogs and venomous beasts
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Lurking-cold pharyngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: White laryngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Pale red laryngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Pale red pharyngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Double-sided pharyngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: White tonsillitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: White pharyngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Alcohol-poisoning laryngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Galloping pharyngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Light white throat abscess
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: One-sided pharyngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: One-sided throat abscess
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Deficiency-putrefaction laryngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Abscess on the tongu
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Alcohol-poisoning laryngitis
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Lung-cold laryngitis