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Many a good razor has been cast aside as useless and good for nothing, till pro bono publico, a fact; or, proof positive. Step'd forward, to give ease to the cheek, comfort to the upper lip, a pleasant familiarity to the chin and an uncommon agreeable surprize to the bearded physiognomy which takes place by a razor being strop'd or sharpen'd on Packwood's new invented razor strop: ...
Packwood, George.Date: 1795?]- Books
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Second series of cases illustrating the pathology of the pulmonary disease frequent among razor-grinders, stoneworkers, colliers, etc. / by Edward Headlam Greenhow.
Greenhow, Edward Headlam, 1814-1888.Date: 1865-66- Books
Bio auto graphic. Scar issue / by Michael C. Nicholson.
Nicholson, Michael C. (Michael Christopher), 1962-Date: 2005- Pictures
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The interior of a bathhouse; a barber dressed in national costume (?) sharpens his razor; a customer sitting cross-legged on a bench awaits his turn. Coloured lithograph.
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A woman shielding her face with her hand from a razor dripping with blood: female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
Date: [1999?]Reference: 811453i- Pictures
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A village barber-surgeon standing in front of his shop, holding a razor and a lancet; in the distance are the village stocks. Coloured etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 1 March 1772Reference: 29464i- Pictures
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A man holding an enormous razor jumps in fright upon looking in a mirror and seeing his dressing table taking on a human form. Etching by W.C.W.
Reference: 30902i- Pictures
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A man is carrying a knife grinder's wheel on his back. Watercolour painting.
Reference: 30571i- Digital Images
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Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: hygiene
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Baby boom : the explosive ending of Al's baby!.
Date: 1991- Pictures
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A knife sharpener at work with a whetstone, seated astride a bench. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
Zhou, Pei Qun, active approximately 1890.Date: 1890Reference: 571444i- Books
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A letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, M. P. Secretary of State, &c. &c. or, an appeal to the people of Great-Britain, being An answer to some Reflections cast upon ̀̀a Citizen, whose Loyalty (it was said) was ̀̀only confined to his Razor!'' In a debate in the House of Commons, February 21st, 1794, Occasioned by an intercepted Letter, Signed J. Harrison, A Sans Culotte, to which is added, an abstract of A Trial for an Assault committed on the Author, in the Name of ̀̀church and King for Ever.'' By Citizen John Harrison, Sheffield.
Harrison, John, active 18th century.Date: 1794- Books
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Directions to enable any person to swim with the help of his hat only; and for the recovery of persons who are drowning, and those who are apparently drowned. Also the art of shaving, containing new and complete instructions on that important art, and on keeping the razor in good order. A method of using coals; by which nearly one-half of the usual expence may be saved: and of making a substitute for beer, with little expence, and less trouble and of curing corns.
Date: [1810?]- Books
Kosmetisches und medizinisches Gerät : erkennen, bestimmen, beschreiben / von Ulrike Weller, Hartmut Kaiser, Ronald Heynowski.
Weller, UlrikeDate: [2016]- Books
Plucked : a history of hair removal / Rebecca M. Herzig.
Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-Date: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003692: Stone knife
Date: November 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/30/61Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Digital Images
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Surgical Indian instruments: midwifery and circumcision knife
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A midwife tending a pregnant woman at home: promoting the Kibiriti home birth kit in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 755600i- Books
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The genuine life, trial, and dying words of Eugene Aram, who was convicted the 3d of August, at York Assizes, and executed the 6th, for the murder of Daniel Clarke, of Knaresborough, which he committed in the year 1744-5. Containing, I. Some remarkable circumstances which attended this unhappy man's life. II. The strange and wonderful manner by which this murder was first discover'd III. His ingenious defence on his trial, greatly admired by all present. IV. His behaviour while under confinement and after receiving sentence of death. V. His attempting to bleed to death, by cutting his arm with a razor the night before he suffer'd. VI. His behaviour and last dying words at the place, of execution. With the copy of a letter he deliver'd at the place of execution.
Aram, Eugene, 1704-1759.Date: [1759?]- Digital Images
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Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Shellfish
Li Jianyuan (Ming period, 1368-1644)- Pictures
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The five senses and death. Watercolour by Elizabeth Painter, 1957.
Painter, Elizabeth, English watercolour painter, active 1937-1957.Date: 1957Reference: 460376i- Books
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Darley's Circulating library, Queen-Street, town of Portsea, where books are lent to read at 12s. per year, 4s. per quarter, 1s. 6d. per month, 6d. per week, or 2d per volume. Also are sold the following articles on the lowest terms. Scented, coloured, and plain hair powders foreign and English pomatums shaving boxes & brushes buckle, tooth, & comb ditto cloaths, nail, and shoe ditto variety of wash balls windsor, violet, and other soaps patent and ball blacking tooth powder and powder mask's steel hat and cap pins powder bags and puffs of all sorts French carmine rouge hair slides lavender, arquebusade, and Hungary water and essences wax and wafers court plaister all sorts of ivory and horn combs dressing cases knives, razors, & scissars gold and silver mounted ivory and tortoiseshell tooth-pick cases Dutch and English toys, &c. &c. No stamp charged on any article of perfumery.
Darley's Circulating library (Portsea, England)Date: [1790?]- Digital Images
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Blood clot on a sticking plaster
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The financier Jules Mirès as a barber about to shave an old man representing the old city of Marseilles. Wood engraving by J.-B. E. Diolot.
Date: 1850-1859Reference: 35797i- Digital Images
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Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.