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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- Books
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The life and adventures of Roxana, the fortunate mistress, or, most unhappy wife. In three parts. Containing, I An Account of her Birth in France, and coming to England. - II. Her marriage in London with a Brewer, who run out of his Estate, and left her with five Children. - III. Hercohabiting with her Landlord; their Journey to Paris, where he was robbed and murdered. - IV. Her being fell in Love with by the Prince of-; and seeing her husband in the Gens d'arms Guard. The Prince leaves her, &c. - V. The Dealings she had with a Dutch Merchant and a Jew, the latter of whom wanted to defraud her of a great part of her jewels: her going to Rotterdam, where she sees the Dutch Merchant, to whom she soon after became a Bedfellow. - VI. Her Return to England, where she had the Name of Roxana. Her Marriage with the Dutch Merchant in London, who was naturalized and created a Baronet. The Miseries she and her Maid Amy afterwards fell into. Adorned with a curious Print of Roxana, in her Turkish Dress.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1765- Pictures
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A Lobelia plant (Lobelia urens): flowering and leafy stems. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24382i- Pictures
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Field scabious plant (Knautia arvensis): flowering and fruiting stem. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24386i- 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
William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself- Books
From lesion to metaphor : chronic pain without lesion in British, French and German medical writings: 1800-1914 / Andrew David Hodgkiss.
Hodgkiss, Andrew.Date: 1996- Books
Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Date: 2018- 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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Scull of a public woman, remarkable for the depravity of her morals, her great propensity to steal and cruellty.
Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839Date: [1835?]Reference: 28077i- 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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Field garlic (Allium oleraceum): flowering stem and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24407i- Pictures
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Two species of dock (Rumex species): flowering stems with leaf and rhizome. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24488i- Books
A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929 / by J.H. Harley Williams ; with a foreword by W.W. Jameson.
Williams, Harley, 1901-1974.Date: 1932- Pictures
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A man is woken by the ghost of a friend calling to him: he crosses his bedroom in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and is annoyed to find it is a cat. Engraving, 1801.
Date: 24t jany. 1801Reference: 36025i- Pictures
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A plant (Romulea columnae): entire flowering and fruiting plants. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24387i- Pictures
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A red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) and white dead-nettle (Lamium album). Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1877-1900]Reference: 24500i- Books
The neurological emergence of epilepsy : the national hospital for the paralysed and epileptic (1870-1895) / Vasia Lekka.
Lekka, Vasia, 1981-Date: [2015]- Books
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The politick wife: or, the devil outwitted by a woman.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
The health of adult Britain, 1841-1994 / editors John Charlton, Mike Murphy.
Date: [1997]- Books
The fossil hunter : dinosaurs, evolution, and the woman whose discoveries changed the world / Shelley Emling.
Emling, Shelley.Date: 2009- Pictures
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Navelwort plant (Umbilicus rupestris): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24393i- Pictures
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Wild or wood garlic (Allium ursinum): flower and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24396i- Pictures
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A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.
Fraser, Alexander, 1786-1865.Date: Feby. 14 1837Reference: 28667i- Pictures
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A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1807?]Reference: 11208i