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  • A man dressing in a bathing machine. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • Blood letting 18th- 19th century: artificial leeches.
  • Mechanised Leech, invented by Messrs. Kidsten & co. 1850.
  • Gastropod molluscs, including oysters, leeches, scolopendrids and whelks. Etching.
  • Half pound tin of the finest ground white pepper / Peter Leech & Son.
  • M0007022: Photograph of two leeches, possibly photographed under microscope
  • Two doctors aloof from one another in disagreement. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • ‘A court for King Cholera’ - Illustration by John Leech.
  • For preserving eggs : silicate of soda or water glass / Peter Leech & Son.
  • Women bathing in the sea near their bathing machines. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • A barber cutting a girl's hair: a woman looks on. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A new doctor being vetted by a local parish committee. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A doctor telling his apprentice how to use language correctly. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1846.
  • A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches / [James Rawlins Johnson].
  • A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches / [James Rawlins Johnson].
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • Daniel J. Leech; head and shoulders, face tilted to the left. Process print.
  • Queen Victoria (?) being driven through the sea in a bathing machine. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech.
  • A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • A doctor tells an obese lady all the possible horrendous diseases she might have. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Women visiting a beach to enjoy geological collecting, study, sewing and other worthy activities. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • Children encouraged by their teachers to box as a positive and healthy recreation. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1858.