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  • Translation of selected passages from De l'auscultation médiate (first edition) / by R. Théophile H. Laennec ; with a biography by William Hale-White.
  • Translation of selected passages from De l'auscultation médiate (first edition) / by R. Théophile H. Laennec ; with a biography by William Hale-White.
  • Translation of selected passages from De l'auscultation médiate (first edition) / by R. Théophile H. Laennec ; with a biography by William Hale-White.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including a gentleman usher with a white rod and the French Ambassador. Engraving by J. Basire after William Camden, 1791.
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Annual report for the year 1929-30 : 32nd year of issue adopted by the Board on 29 March 1930 / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • Architecture: decorative ironwork. Lithograph by Kell Bros., after W. White.
  • Port Said, Egypt: a quarantine station. Wood engraving by W. Kemp after J.N. Schönberg, 1882.
  • Baby with congenital deformity of the right foot
  • Wm. Low : the very best in breads : now you can enjoy the delicious taste of Hovis freshly baked at Wm Low... as good today as it's always been : Hovis.
  • A man designated as Dr William Hunter. Oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • A man designated as Dr William Hunter. Oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • A man designated as Dr William Hunter. Oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • A man designated as Dr William Hunter. Oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • A man designated as Dr William Hunter. Oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • A man designated as Dr William Hunter. Oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • Certificate : to be given to volunteers at the time of their discharge to enable them to receive their pay, &c.
  • William Holme (?). Mezzotint by W. Ward, ca. 1820, after T. Stewardson.
  • Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.
  • Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.
  • Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.
  • Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.
  • Animals' Vigilantes : founded 1965... united against cruelty to animals.
  • A fungus (Agaricus species): fungus with fruiting-bodies growing on wood. Coloured etching by G. D. Ehret, c.1744, after himself.
  • Francesco Ravai, called il Bajocco, a dwarf. Watercolour.
  • Julian Eltinge in "The fascinating widow" poses for his portrait. Process print, 1915.
  • Julian Eltinge in "The fascinating widow" poses for his portrait. Process print, 1915.
  • Digitalis purpurea (Purple foxglove)
  • Digitalis lanata (Woolly foxglove)
  • Mohawk Minstrels : Mr. Andrew Bannister, the Mohawks giant... : Little Thomas, the marvellous male soprano / Proprietors, William Francis & Harry Hunter.