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Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities.
Date: [1705?]- Books
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C. Curtis. Surgeon, and Man-Midwife Sunbury Middlesex, begs leave to inform the Public, that his Apprenticeship with the late Doctor Edger, at Saraum, in Wilts, he has taken up his Diploma at Leaks Hospital at Westminster, and have followed the above Practice of Surgery and Midwifery for this Eight Years past, and have cured the following diseases after they have baffled the Art of Surgeons, and Physicans of the greatest characters, such as Wounds, Tumours, and Ulchers, either Scorbutic Kings Evil, scal'd Head, Burns, broken Breastes, sore nipples, the Gravel and Stone, give present relief, the Itch in Six Days, the Veneral disease or Pox, if ever so bad or long standing, the scurvy, St. Antonys fire, Quinsey sore Eyes, yellow and black Jaundices, the Dropsy if given over by others as uncurable, they may depend on a cure by me, the Piles the Morphew, the Shingles, Agues, Thursh, Headach, Plurisy, and most disorders Incident to Women, Convulsion Fits in Men, Women and Children, after they have had all the advice the Kingdom can aford them, they may depend on a cure by applying to me, the Worms in Men, Women, and Children, also Consumption if taken in time. N. B. Such Women as in time of Labour will apply to me for assistance in that awfull hour of distress may be thus ashured, that nothing shall be wanted that is in the power of Man to relief or the Virtue of Medicine to give ease in, that cricital and most auful Moment of distress, where the utmost delicacy and Judgment cannot be to well applied, no care and tenderness to much attended as to the preservation of both Mother and Child. - All disorders that may befall either Mother, or Child, in their Month, shall be cured Grans. for Half a Guinea only at the time of Delivery, but if nothing of the kind should hapen to either. Five shillings only, they that live within Six Miles of Sunbury; Whoever doubt of my knowledge in the Art of Midwifery, apply to me where they shall have a prove of it in the neighbourhood of Halliford, one Mile and a half from Sunbury, which was a Case that Occur to me and was sufficient to me to prove my Judgment, in the said Art, - Bleeding, and Tooth drawing performed with care and Accuracy.
Curtis, C.Date: 1790?]- Pictures
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A dinner party: a young man plays the lute while a young woman puts a piece of meat into the mouth of the man at the head of the table. Etching by Vivant Denon, 1793, after G. Honthorst.
Honthorst, Gerrit van, 1592-1656.Date: 1793Reference: 2474494i- Pictures
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A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1827?]Reference: 608207i- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd