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A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1863Reference: 13800i- Pictures
A fashionable doctor visiting a fashionable lady patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1869.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1869Reference: 15688i- Pictures
A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 5 November 1835Reference: 11859iPart of: Dawson's magic- Pictures
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A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1809?]Reference: 15968i- Pictures
N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: [26 February 1811]Reference: 16635i- Books
The greedy queen : eating with Victoria / Annie Gray.
Gray, Annie (Food historian)Date: 2017- Pictures
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An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 30 July 1801Reference: 16388i- Books
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Half a century of sanitary progress, and its results / by H. Franklin Parsons.
Parsons, H. Franklin (Henry Franklin), 1846-1913.Date: 1899- Pictures
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A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1836]Reference: 32377i- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]- Books
Child insanity in England, 1845-1907 / Steven J. Taylor.
Taylor, Steven J. (Of the University of Leicester)Date: [2017]- Books
A sewer is the best medicine : through plague, wars, famine and flood : Sir Robert Rawlinson and the nineteenth century public health revolution / J. Andrew Charles.
Charles, J. AndrewDate: 2022- Pictures
A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
Holden, Albert William, 1848-1932.Date: [1900?]Reference: 45152i- Books
The fitness of the nation - physical and health education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : proceedings of the 1982 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain / edited by Nicholas Parry, David McNair.
History of Education Society (Great Britain). Conference (1982)Date: 1983- Books
George Cruikshank's The Worship of Bacchus in focus / Robert Upstone, with a technical essay by Christopher Holden.
Upstone, Robert.Date: 2001- Books
Medicine in modern Britain 1780-1950 / Deborah Brunton.
Brunton, DeborahDate: 2019- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: March 1829Reference: 12222i- Pictures
A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
Date: 8 April 1871Reference: 17866i- Books
Victoria's madmen : revolution and alienation / Clive Bloom.
Bloom, Clive.Date: 2013- Books
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Bedford Level. N.B. the report on the petition is intended to be made on Wednesday the 19th of March, if the House sits on that day, - if not, then the first day the House does sit.
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1720?]- Pictures
A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 12244i- Pictures
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An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Reference: 11903iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Books
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Irish state-lottery, 1799. Begins Drawing July 23. Scheme. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 3 of -10,000 is -30,000 3 - 5,000 - 15,000 4 - 2,000 - 8,000 5 - 1,000 - 5,000 10 - 500 - 5,000 30 - 100 - 3,000 60 - 50 - 3,000 8,000 - 10 - 80,000 8,115 Prizes 149,000 First-Drawn Ticket - - 500 First-Drawn Ticket last Morning - 500 21,885 Blanks 30,000 Tickets -150,000 Part of the Capital Prizes will be determined as follows: First-Drawn Ticket 19th Day - - -2,000 First-Drawn Ticket 21st Day - - 5,000 First-Drawn Ticket 23d Day - - 10,000 Tickets and Shares Are selling in Variety at the Old State Lottery Offices of T. Bish, Stock Broker, No. 4, Cornhill, London; and at the house of James Thomson, Bookseller, Manchester. Country Correspondents, by remitting Bank Notes, Post-Office Orders, or Cash, may have Tickets and Shares sent them, and their Orders complied with, the same as if present. Tickets and Shares Registered, to send the earliest Intelligence of their Fate to any Part of the World. Letters, if Post-Paid, duly answered.
Bish, Thomas, 1779-Date: 1799]- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin out walking in Kensington Gardens hoping to bump into his loved one, he discovers her on the arm of another man which causes him much jealousy. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12134i- Pictures
Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Reference: 11631i