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  • The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].
  • A discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of physick in London, and offering some means to put it into a better; for the interest of patients, no less, or rather much more, then of physicians / [Jonathan Goddard].
  • The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].
  • The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].
  • The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].
  • The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].
  • We, the President and Fellows of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, having duly and deliberately examined ... in the principles and practice of medicine, and in the accessory sciences, and having found him well versed therein, do by these presents, grant him a license to practise in the Faculty of Physic and do hereby certify that he is a physician and licentiate in medicine of said college ... / King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland.
  • The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies. Designed for the use of all private families / By Thomas Dover.
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies. Designed for the use of all private families / By Thomas Dover.
  • The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey].
  • The triumph of the physician Jacobus Castricus (Jacques van den Kasteele): allegorical figures of Practice and Theory accompany him in a chariot under a triumphal arch; in the foreground, honey, mint and artemisia and mythical beasts are tramping on the contorted bodies of plague, fever and dropsy. Process print after H. Holbein (?), ca. 1540.
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • A method of studying physick. Containing what a physician ought to know in relation to the nature of bodies, the laws of motion ... and the properties of fluids: chymistry, pharmacy, and botany: osteology, myology ... and dissection: the theory and practice of physick: physiology, pathology, surgery, diet, etc. And the whole Praxis medica interna; with the names and characters of the most excellent authors on all these subjects ... their best editions, and the method of reading them / Written in Latin ... Translated into English by Mr. Samber.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A dozen scenes presenting the manifold aspects of a family doctor's personality. Wood engraving by M.B.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A country doctor riding a horse. Mezzotint by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, ca. 1900 (?).
  • A country doctor riding a horse. Mezzotint by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, ca. 1900 (?).
  • An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.
  • A doctor passing by the cottage of a needy patient, shouting reassurance on his way to hunt. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.