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  • Weekly memorials for the ingenious, or, An account of books lately set forth in several languages. With other accounts relating arts and sciences.
  • The fatal book opened : an authentic account of John Albert, a young gentleman in Hamburgh, who by the constant study of the works of Friar Bacon and Doctor Faustus, and other books of magic and astrology, had acquired an awful knowledge of cabalistics, necromancy and the black art.
  • The theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two fisrt [sic] books, concerning the deluge, and concerning paradise.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • A hand holding saving account book from the Wise People's Bank: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council , ca. 1990.
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • The case of the Hertfordshire witchcraft consider'd. : Being an examination of a book entitl'd A full and impartial account of the discovery of sorcery and witchcraft practis'd by Jane Wenham of Walkern, upon the bodies of Anne Thorne, Anne Street, &c.
  • An Indian accountant (?) carrying a book. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The book of knowledge; treating of the wisdom of the ancients. In four parts. I Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... II. Prognostications for ever, necessary to keep the body in health ... III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's kalendar ... / Written by Errapater ... Made English by W. Lilley ... To which is added, The dealer's directory; containing, 1. The true form of all sorts of bills, bonds ... 2. The best method of getting in debts ... 3. An account of weights, measures, numbers, coins.
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A young man sits reading ledgers at his desk wearing spectacles and an eyeshade. Wood engraving after A. Oberländer.
  • Still life with a ledger, a skull and other objects. Oil painting, 1766.
  • Still life with a ledger, a skull and other objects. Oil painting, 1766.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.
  • D. M. & J. Taylor, dairymen : Channel Islands & tuberculin tested milk, butter & cream, farm eggs a speciality : The Willows. Normandy.