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  • John Best at ye Mace ye corner of Lumbard Street bext ye Stocks Market maketh razors, sissers, launcets, penknives : and all sorts of chirurgeons instruments : also by him are sold fine hoanes.
  • A bomb-shell with a lighted fuse beneath a column inscribed "legislative union" is surrounded by prominent Tory ministers who debate how best to deal with the danger, as Daniel O'Connell steals off. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.
  • The entire works of Dr. Thomas Sydenham, newly made English from the originals: wherein the history of acute and chronic diseases, and the safest and most effectual methods of treating them, are faithfully, clearly, and accurately delivered. To which are added, explanatory and practical notes, from the best medicinal writers / By John Swan.
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • A pedlar of jewelry reads from a sheet, ladies inspect his wares, and a shepherd looks delighted. Engraving by S. Davenport after J. Holmes after C.R. Leslie.
  • Above, the burning at the stake of Person, Testwood and Filmer outside Windsor Castle; below, the trial of Marbeck, Testwood, Person and Filmer, the punishment of London, Simons and Robert Ockham in the pillory. Woodcut by A.S.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • Chaozhou, Kwangtung province, China: Phoenix pagoda. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Chaozhou, Kwangtung province, China: Phoenix pagoda. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • An inn at Bristol: people having breakfast before taking the stage coach. Stipple print after E.V. Rippingille, 1824.
  • Three doctors converge around John Pitt, 2nd earl of Chatham, as their patient; representing the embarrassment of the failed Walcheren Expedition in Flanders. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1809.
  • Three doctors converge around John Pitt, 2nd earl of Chatham, as their patient; representing the embarrassment of the failed Walcheren Expedition in Flanders. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1809.
  • A system of anatomy / From Monro, Winslow, Innes and the latest authors. Arranged, as nearly as the nature of the work would admit, in the order of the lectures delivered by the professor of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh.
  • The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.
  • The domestic life of Martin Luther at Wittenberg: Luther plays the lute, his wife and children listen, along with Melanchthon. Engraving by J.D. Nargeot after P.A. Labouchère.
  • People loading corn on to a horse-drawn cart at harvest-time. Engraving by J. Cousen after J. Linnell.
  • A seated man sharpening a quill pen. Engraving by R. Wallis after F. van Mieris.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.