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  • Two groups of customers buying water to drink from a large ornate stand staffed by a man and a woman. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura.
  • A man is thatching the roof of a cottage as a boy brings a bowl of water for the horses to drink. Lithograph after George Morland.
  • Drink before calving : to be mixed with a pint of warm water, & given two days before the cow is due to calve / Fred.k L. Gooch.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Francis Spring where people stand to drink water drawn from the central circular point by female attendants in white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Francis Spring where people stand to drink water drawn from the central circular point by female attendants in white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • A vendor of lemonade and barley water in Paris is carrying a large drinks container on her back as she walks through the street. Coloured etching with aquatint by R. Bridgens.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Natalie Spring where people stand to drink water carried up steps from a central point by female attendants wearing white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Natalie Spring where people stand to drink water carried up steps from a central point by female attendants wearing white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • A woman preparing a tea drink by pouring hot water into two bowls containing tea leaves, for herself (?) and a man seated at a table. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Six men and a woman drink and smoke round a table outside a country tavern, behind them children watch a woman pump water. Etching by J. Browne and engraving by W. Woollett, 1767, after C. Dusart.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.
  • Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases whether applied to the surface of the body or used as a drink, with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / [James Currie].
  • Polypharmakos kai chymistēs: or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true use of all manner of plants and minerals. In which is explained, the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. Wherein is contained, 1. The cure of any internal disease, which hath taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, ... 2. The making of diverse rare and excellent balsames, oyls, plaisters, and waters, with the effects thereof. 3. The making, and use of purges, vomits, drinks, and clisters, ... 4. The nature and temperarure [sic] of herbs, plants, and vegetables, ... 5. The way to extract the spirits and quintaessences of several sorts of herbs and minerals, and the rare operations they have. 6. The making of salt of wormwood, balm, or any other herb. 7. The cure of any wound, contusion, puncture, or ulcer in any part of the body. All which have been prescribed and practised by several learned doctors and chyrurgians. / By D. Border, practitioner in physick.
  • Polypharmakos kai chymistēs: or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true use of all manner of plants and minerals. In which is explained, the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. Wherein is contained, 1. The cure of any internal disease, which hath taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, ... 2. The making of diverse rare and excellent balsames, oyls, plaisters, and waters, with the effects thereof. 3. The making, and use of purges, vomits, drinks, and clisters, ... 4. The nature and temperarure [sic] of herbs, plants, and vegetables, ... 5. The way to extract the spirits and quintaessences of several sorts of herbs and minerals, and the rare operations they have. 6. The making of salt of wormwood, balm, or any other herb. 7. The cure of any wound, contusion, puncture, or ulcer in any part of the body. All which have been prescribed and practised by several learned doctors and chyrurgians. / By D. Border, practitioner in physick.
  • Polypharmakos kai chymistēs: or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true use of all manner of plants and minerals. In which is explained, the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. Wherein is contained, 1. The cure of any internal disease, which hath taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, ... 2. The making of diverse rare and excellent balsames, oyls, plaisters, and waters, with the effects thereof. 3. The making, and use of purges, vomits, drinks, and clisters, ... 4. The nature and temperarure [sic] of herbs, plants, and vegetables, ... 5. The way to extract the spirits and quintaessences of several sorts of herbs and minerals, and the rare operations they have. 6. The making of salt of wormwood, balm, or any other herb. 7. The cure of any wound, contusion, puncture, or ulcer in any part of the body. All which have been prescribed and practised by several learned doctors and chyrurgians. / By D. Border, practitioner in physick.
  • Polypharmakos kai chymistēs: or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true use of all manner of plants and minerals. In which is explained, the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. Wherein is contained, 1. The cure of any internal disease, which hath taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, ... 2. The making of diverse rare and excellent balsames, oyls, plaisters, and waters, with the effects thereof. 3. The making, and use of purges, vomits, drinks, and clisters, ... 4. The nature and temperarure [sic] of herbs, plants, and vegetables, ... 5. The way to extract the spirits and quintaessences of several sorts of herbs and minerals, and the rare operations they have. 6. The making of salt of wormwood, balm, or any other herb. 7. The cure of any wound, contusion, puncture, or ulcer in any part of the body. All which have been prescribed and practised by several learned doctors and chyrurgians. / By D. Border, practitioner in physick.
  • Polypharmakos kai chymistēs: or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true use of all manner of plants and minerals. In which is explained, the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. Wherein is contained, 1. The cure of any internal disease, which hath taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, ... 2. The making of diverse rare and excellent balsames, oyls, plaisters, and waters, with the effects thereof. 3. The making, and use of purges, vomits, drinks, and clisters, ... 4. The nature and temperarure [sic] of herbs, plants, and vegetables, ... 5. The way to extract the spirits and quintaessences of several sorts of herbs and minerals, and the rare operations they have. 6. The making of salt of wormwood, balm, or any other herb. 7. The cure of any wound, contusion, puncture, or ulcer in any part of the body. All which have been prescribed and practised by several learned doctors and chyrurgians. / By D. Border, practitioner in physick.
  • Polypharmakos kai chymistēs: or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true use of all manner of plants and minerals. In which is explained, the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. Wherein is contained, 1. The cure of any internal disease, which hath taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, ... 2. The making of diverse rare and excellent balsames, oyls, plaisters, and waters, with the effects thereof. 3. The making, and use of purges, vomits, drinks, and clisters, ... 4. The nature and temperarure [sic] of herbs, plants, and vegetables, ... 5. The way to extract the spirits and quintaessences of several sorts of herbs and minerals, and the rare operations they have. 6. The making of salt of wormwood, balm, or any other herb. 7. The cure of any wound, contusion, puncture, or ulcer in any part of the body. All which have been prescribed and practised by several learned doctors and chyrurgians. / By D. Border, practitioner in physick.
  • Fluid facts : being well hydrated keeps us going, and with water making up around 70% of our bodies, it's good to know the facts.
  • Fluid facts : being well hydrated keeps us going, and with water making up around 70% of our bodies, it's good to know the facts.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • The Well of En-Rogel, Jerusalem. Coloured photholithograph by A.A. Isaacs.
  • Gilsland Spa, Cumberland: figures drinking by the walkway. Line engraving by J. Sands after T. Allom.
  • Figures gathered at the central spring, Epetan, Java. Coloured aquatint by T. Fielding, 1817.
  • Sion College, London Wall, London: the gatehouse, with a man about to operate a pump. Engraving.
  • Well of the Virgin, Jerusalem. Line engraving by J.C. Armytage after W.H. Bartlett.