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  • Proposed asylum for imbecile poor at Caterham, Surrey.
  • The eagle remedy for poor eyesight, 13th century
  • Poor House Hospital, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England: with floor plan. Photolithograph by W. & A.K. Johnston, 1874.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • A poor African man lying by his pipe. Wood-engraving.
  • Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green, water supply 1863
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • Alas! My poor brother : "I hear they want more Bovril".
  • Day nursery, Chicago, c.1890, The poor in great cities, 1896
  • Alas! My poor brother : "I hear they want more Bovril".
  • A poor man suffering from indigestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • An itinerant poor saleswoman selling hearthstones. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Advice for the poor by way of cure and caution / [Thomas Cocke].
  • Liverpool Food and Betterment Association. Taking out food to the sick poor.
  • Dwellings for the poor. Part of the Corporation Buildings, Farringdon Road, London
  • Poplar and Stephney Sick Asylum. For the reception of the pauper sick, under the provisions of Mr. Gathorne Hardy's Metropolitan Poor Act (1867).
  • Tiles found in the new wards for homeless poor, Whitechapel, 1866. Watercolour painting.
  • Two poor Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family. Mezzotint.
  • Overcrowding and poor living conditions in London, 1862: eleven scenes. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • Overcrowding and poor living conditions in London, 1862: eleven scenes. Wood engraving, 1862.