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  • The surprising little man : being a person of twenty-two years of age, yet no more than three feet two inches high ...
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • These are to give notice, to all persons of quality and others, that there is newly come to this place a little Scotch man ... : he being but two foot and six inches high, and is near upon sixty years of age ...
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • The method and means of enjoying health, vigour and long life. Adapting peculiar courses, for different constitutions; ages; abilities; valetudinary states; individual proprieties; habituated customs, and passions of mind. Suting preservatives, and correctives; to every person, for attainment thereof ... And passions of mind ... / [Everard Maynwaringe].
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • The method and means of enjoying health, vigour and long life. Adapting peculiar courses, for different constitutions; ages; abilities; valetudinary states; individual proprieties; habituated customs, and passions of mind. Suting preservatives, and correctives; to every person, for attainment thereof ... And passions of mind ... / [Everard Maynwaringe].
  • Living with differences : sexuality, values and the teacher : a course for teachers responsible for PSD, health education and religious studies on personal, religious and moral education in the age of AIDS : 9th-11th June, 1989 / University of Hull Social Values Research Centre.
  • Re-engagement owing to enormous success of Joe Elvin in a personally conducted trip on The Tram ("Fares, please.") ... : The extraordinary, phenomenal colossal Russian Fat Girl, Miss Lucie, the heaviest girl in the world. Aged 16 years. Weight 350 lbs. ... / Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road, S.E.
  • Miniature in gold of Bronze Age ornamented flanged axe.
  • Iron Age bronze Fibula, boat (navicella) type
  • Miniature in gold of Bronze Age ornamented flanged axe.
  • Iron Age bronze Fibula, loop type with disc at head
  • Miniature in gold of Broze Age ornamented flanged axe.
  • Some elderly patients wistfully reminisce about their younger days. Coloured lithograph by A. de Valmont.
  • A young woman wearing a bonnet, representing characteristics of youth. Drawing, ca. 1794.
  • Community care : nursing, midwifery and health visiting / prepared for the Department of Health and Social Security by the Central Office of Information.
  • Community care : nursing, midwifery and health visiting / prepared for the Department of Health and Social Security by the Central Office of Information.
  • Alles in einer hand.
  • Bathsheba brings the young maid Abishag to the aging King David for body heat. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1779, after G. Farington after A. van der Werff, 1696.
  • Textiles: a petition presented on behalf of the descendants of John Kay, for a pension. Coloured lithograph by Nosworthy and Wells after Cardwell, with letterpress, 1846.
  • Textiles: a petition presented on behalf of the descendants of John Kay, for a pension. Coloured lithograph by Nosworthy and Wells after Cardwell, with letterpress, 1846.
  • A child receiving an injection: yellow fever immunization in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of HealthKEPI and Unicef, 2002.
  • Clock and Watchmakers Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: panoramic view. Coloured wood engraving by J. Knight.
  • A mechanical housemaid constructed from pieces of household equipment. Engraving by G. Bickham the younger.
  • Materials for protection of the body and respiratory system in civil defence: three figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Peter Fitzsimons, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • Peter Fitzsimons, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.