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Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Coloured etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1818.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.Date: 11 December 1818Reference: 12030i- Pictures
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A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, John.Date: 28 January 1804Reference: 12068i- 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
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
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
Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
Reference: 12210i- Books
Victoria's madmen : revolution and alienation / Clive Bloom.
Bloom, Clive.Date: 2013- Books
Child insanity in England, 1845-1907 / Steven J. Taylor.
Taylor, Steven J. (Of the University of Leicester)Date: [2017]- 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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A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.
Date: 1913Reference: 23451i- Pictures
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A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 6 March 1831Reference: 12081i- 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
George III's illnesses and his doctors : a study in early psychiatry / Michael Ramscar.
Ramscar, MichaelDate: 2023- Pictures
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A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
Date: 18 April 1800Reference: 11639i- Pictures
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Dr Fossil, an evolutionist, coming up against an interested couple's misguided views, at an anthropological society meeting. Wood engraving by W. Mackay, 1873.
Mackay, Wallis.Date: 4 January 1873Reference: 13806i- 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
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Mr. Lambkin on his knees begging forgiveness from his loved one. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12141i- Pictures
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Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
Burr, Alexander Hohenlohe, 1835-1899.Date: 4 April 1891Reference: 29212i- Pictures
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Marsh ludwigia plant (Ludwigia palustris): flowering stem with roots. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24478i- Pictures
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A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11201iPart of: G.T.B.s- Pictures
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Cornish moneywort or pennywort plant (Sibthorpia europaea): flowering and leafy stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24394i- E-books
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Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / Deborah Lutz.
Lutz, DeborahDate: 2015- Pictures
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