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  • Page from an 18th century Receipt book elaborating upon the medicine useful against the Plague
  • Glaxo builds bonnie babies : a trial tin of Glaxo, together with a small Glaxo baby book, will be sent post free, on receipt of a post card to Glaxo, mentioning this publication / Glaxo.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Never before published. Transcribed from the true copies of her Majesty's own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • page from the Boyle Family medical book
  • WMS 3339, For cholera: '30 drops of laudanum
  • A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.
  • A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.
  • A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.
  • A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.
  • A bedridden sick young woman being examined by a doctor, accompanied by her anxious parents. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1838, after Sir D. Wilkie.
  • A lady, with her maid, consults an apothecary in his workroom, for a love philtre (?). Coloured lithograph, c.1850.
  • A physician examining urine. Engraving by A. Walker, 1763, after A. van Ostade.
  • A physician examining urine. Engraving by A. Walker, 1763, after A. van Ostade.
  • A physician examining urine. Mezzotint by R. Houston after A. van Ostade.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A physician, in his surgery and workshop, examining a urine flask and referring to a book. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book Engraving by J.B. Tardieu after D. Teniers.
  • The Aylesbury Dairy Company, Ltd. : Chief office- 31, St. Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, London, W. : Hampstead branch- Finchley Road, Hampstead, N.W. : received from.
  • An excited physician examining a urine specimen and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis, two assistants are mixing concoctions in the background. Mezzotint by J.B. Enzensberger after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • page from Lady Anne Fanshawe's Recipe Book
  • page from Lady Ann Fanshawe's Receipe Book
  • Smith, Abigail & others
  • To make Doctor Stevens water
  • 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