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  • A boy tears up his school textbooks in a fit of anger against his education. Engraving W.C. Wrankmore after C. Wrankmore.
  • Bile Beans keep you healthy, happy and slim ... keep you fit & well and are excellent for constipation, headaches and biliousness.
  • A woman sitting on a sofa with a devotional book in her hand as a shoemaker fits a shoe to her foot. Etching.
  • A woman sitting on a sofa with a devotional book in her hand as a shoemaker fits a shoe to her foot. Etching.
  • A tailor is attempting to make a coat fit his customer when it is much too large. Etching by J. Cooke after S. Collings.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • A nurse immunizing a baby, and people exercising: keep fit campaign to mark World Health Day in Tanzania 2002. Colour lithograph by Unicef ca. 2000.
  • The London registered all leather dog muzzle : (ease, fit & durability) : cannot hurt the dog : best make : all solid leather... / Spratt's Patent Limited.
  • Bile Beans for inner health & slimness : take them regularly at bedtime ... : keep you fit and well and are excellent for constipation, headaches and biliousness.
  • Bile Beans for inner health & slimness : take them regularly at bedtime ... : keep you fit and well and are excellent for constipation, headaches and biliousness.
  • A young man has no need to find the right key to fit woman's chastity belt, as her Crusader husband has locked it with a combination lock. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • In a crowded salon, a wigmaker fits wigs according to occupation; representing the character stereotyping of Gall's phrenology. Coloured etching by J.E. Marcus after J. Smies, c. 1810.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • A new well, fitted with a Dragor water pump, contrasted with an old well using a bucket on a winch; advertising Dragor water pumps. Colour lithograph by Jelb, 1935.
  • Protect your child from fire : close fitting garments plus fire guards spell safety : see also our pamphlet "A child in danger" / Fire Offices' Committee, Fire Protection Association, London.
  • A treatise of the gout / Written originally in the French tongue [by T. de Mayerne] ; Englished ... by Thomas Sherley ... ; Whereunto is added, advice about hypochondriacal-fits.
  • De mirabili strumas sanandi vi solis Galliae regibus christianissimis divinitus concessa liber unus. Et de strumarum natura, differentiis, causis, curatione quae fit arte et industria medica. Liber alter / Authore Andrea Laurentio.
  • Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.
  • Starting or changing treatment? : see how the combination you've been offered fits your lifestyle using the wheel, your personal pill planner, at www.aidsmap.com / NAM, British HIV Asociation, Crusaid.
  • A boy taking a glass of water from a tap fitted with a device to purify water with ozone; advertising the Otto procedure of water purification by electricity. Colour lithograph by Goldstein, 1930.
  • A man with three eyes is fitted with spectacles, watched by a man and woman with fantastically elongated necks, both smoking pipes; a Buddhist monk (?) playing a shamisen looks away. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.
  • To the left a woman wearing the Hungarian (?) national costume comprising a lattice patterned tight-fitting bodice, voluminous skirt, wide sleeves and a head-dress; to the right eight heads of women wearing fashionable head-dresses. Coloured engraving.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.
  • Certaine philosophical preparations of foode and beverage for sea-men, in their long voyages: with some necessary, approoved, and hermeticall medicines and antidotes, fit to be had in readinesse at sea, for prevention or cure of divers diseases / [Sir Hugh Plat].