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  • Government proposals for the reform of the 1876 cruelty to animals act : summary of the supplemantary white paper (Cmnd. 9521) : Scientific procedures on living animals / Research Defence Society.
  • Government proposals for the reform of the 1876 cruelty to animals act : summary of the supplemantary white paper (Cmnd. 9521) : Scientific procedures on living animals / Research Defence Society.
  • Government proposals for the reform of the 1876 cruelty to animals act : summary of the supplemantary white paper (Cmnd. 9521) : Scientific procedures on living animals / Research Defence Society.
  • A doctor visiting a patient who insists on self medication; representing Lord Rosebery's chairmanship of a committee advocating reform in the House of Lords. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1907.
  • Theo Heemskerk as an alchemist trying in vain to distill a report from members of a commission set up to reform the constitution of the Netherlands. Line block after J. Braakensiek, 1912.
  • Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.
  • Two doctors - left, the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, and right, H. H. Asquith - recommending different remedies to an irate patient; representing arguments surrounding the Parliament Act of 1911 and reform in the House of Lords. Pen drawing by F.C. Gould, 1911.
  • Portrait of Charles Booth, Social Reformer
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), physician and social reformer. Oil painting by John Burton and Sons.
  • Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), physician and social reformer. Oil painting by John Burton and Sons.
  • Aidez-vous à sauver les tuberculeux réformés : [Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires]
  • Aidez-vous à sauver les tuberculeux réformés : [Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires]
  • Saint Teresa of Avila, the Reformer of the Carmelite Order. Born in Avila in 1515, died in 1582. Known as the Reformer of the Carmelite Order, and author of a fascinating autobiography. No connection with medicine. Celebrated on the 15th October.
  • The emblematic figure of a man representing secularisation, technical innovation, educational reforms and liberal politics in the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • Four Protestant reformers translating the Bible. Lithograph by L. Noel after P.A. Labouchère, 1847.
  • An auction at which British dominions are sold, according to proposed Liberal reforms; India being sold at auction to a Russian man. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 31 October 1891.
  • Britannia and her lion are begging on a bench on the Thames Embankment, impoverished by proposed Liberal reforms; beyond, the Palace of Westminster in ruins. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 28 November 1891.
  • Saint Godehardus of Hildesheim: his sermons force the dead to leave their graves, resulting in reformation among the living. Engraving by R. Sadeler after J.M. Kager.
  • Pretoria, South Africa: the Dutch Reformed Church. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A reformed and fashionable gentleman exits from the church with his beautiful bride. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A reformed gentleman sits reading the "Teetotaler", surrounded by his wife, children and father. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • Reformed prostitutes being led in a group through the streets of Naples for fund-raising, watched by people from a window. Engraving.
  • Site of the Wellcome Building, Gordon Street front, seen from the north east. Photograph accessed by W.B.S.R. on 28 September, 1922. N.B. reformed balcony on northern part of building.
  • Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeos. : The vanity of the craft of physick. Or, a new dispensatory: wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools, in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c. and the particular medicines of the shops. With an humble motion for the reformation of the universities, and the whole landscap of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie. To the parliament of England. / By Noah Biggs, chymiatrophilos.