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  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A handbook of the open-air treatment and life in an open-air sanatorium : a concise account of the modern open-air treatment for consumption and other tuberculous diseases, with detailed descriptions of open-air sanatoria in the British Isles .... / by Charles Reinhardt and David Thomson.
  • A man hugging a woman and raising her from the floor representing an advertisement for the 8th course on AIDS education for students at the Instituto Marqués de Santillana on 13 December 1996; organised by the Centre de Estudios Sociales Aplicados [Center of Applied Social Studies] and the Gobierno de Cantabria Consejeria de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social [Government of Cantabria, Department of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare]. Colour lithograph by Michael Emberly, 1996.
  • Cod liver oil cream with hypophosphites and pancreatine : a pleasantly flavoured and easily digested preparation; highly nourishing and strengthening, for delicate children and invalids; and of great value in cases of consumption, asthma, bronchitis, anaemia, coughs and colds, and as a restorative after illness / R. Thomson, chemist, 26 & 28 High Street, Elgin.
  • Cod liver oil cream with hypophosphites and pancreatine : a pleasantly flavoured and easily digested preparation; highly nourishing and strengthening, for delicate children and invalids; and of great value in cases of consumption, asthma, bronchitis, anaemia, coughs and colds, and as a restorative after illness / R. Thomson, chemist, 26 & 28 High Street, Elgin.
  • Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.
  • P. Stern, Medical advice to the consumptive
  • Sanatorium for consumptives, in rural surroundings. Photomechanical reproduction, 1903.
  • The art of curing diseases by expectation : with remarks on a supposed great case of apoplectick fits. Also most useful observations on coughs, consumptions, stone, dropsies, fevers, and smallpox; with a confutation of dispensatories, and other various discourses in physick / By Gidean Harvey.
  • Dr. Sydenham's practice of physick: the signs, symptoms, causes and cures of diseases. With many additions from the second edition of the Latin copy. His discourses of consumptions and gouts, etc. never before published / Faithfully translated into English, with large annotations and practical observations. By William Salmon.
  • Rosa gallica L. Rosaceae Distribution: S & C Europe, Western Asia. Culpeper: “Red roses cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restores such as are in consumptions, strengthen. Notes: Rose water and distilled oil of roses have been used in herbal medicine for over a thousand years, and are still used in aromatherapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tussilago farfara L. Asteraceae. Coltsfoot. Distribution: Europe, N. Africa, W & N Asia . Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Tussilago. Coltsfoot. ... they are admirable good for coughs and consumptions of the lungs, shortness of breath etc. It is often used and with great success taken in a tobacco pipe, being cut and mixed with a little oil of Annis seeds.’ It is hepatotoxic genotoxic and carcinogenic due to the pyrrolizidine alkaloids that it contains. It should not be taken internally (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].
  • The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].
  • The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].
  • The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].
  • The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].
  • S.Fitch,Six lectures on the uses of the lung
  • Medical Officer of Health's register of noti
  • A Handbook of the Open Air Treatment
  • Medical Officer of Health's register of noti
  • Leçons sur la physiologie comparée de la respiration : professées au Muséum d'histoire naturelle / par Paul Bert.
  • Leçons sur la physiologie comparée de la respiration : professées au Muséum d'histoire naturelle / par Paul Bert.
  • Leçons sur la physiologie comparée de la respiration : professées au Muséum d'histoire naturelle / par Paul Bert.
  • Leçons sur la physiologie comparée de la respiration : professées au Muséum d'histoire naturelle / par Paul Bert.
  • A woman cooking pancakes is passing food on a plate through the window to people outside: one of them counts out his coins. Engraving by P. de Colle after C.W.E. Dietrich.
  • A boy drinks milk from the flask that a young woman has given him from her panier. Engraving by Giovanni Volpato after Francesco Maggiotto.
  • A.Maddock, Practical observations on the eff