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The colonial machine : French science and overseas expansion in the old regime / James E. McClellan III, François Regourd.
McClellan, James E., III (James Edward), 1946-Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
De l'élixir au génie génétique : deux siècles de sciences pharmaceutiques hospitalières.
Date: [1995], ©1995- Pictures
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Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 12 December [1790?]Reference: 12178i- Books
In sickness and in health : medicine and health care in 19th century French prints a salute to the New Jersey pharmaceutical industry The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 10-August 19, 1984 / by Patricia Eckert Boyer.
Boyer, Patricia Eckert.Date: [1984], ©1984- Pictures
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A physician, a burgess (the physician's patient), and the dean of a university, in their respective costumes, 13--. Coloured wood engraving by Cupré after F.P.
P. F.Reference: 21505i- Videos
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Ergot : the story of a parasitic fungus.
Moir, Chassar.Date: 1958- Pictures
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A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: June 1871Reference: 18167i- 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- Archives and manuscripts
War - Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory
Date: 1914 -1932Reference: WF/E/01/03/32Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Memoirs of Elizabeth Farnesio, the present Queen dowager of Spain. Containing her intrigues and ambitious views, from the Year 1714, in which she was married to Philip V. King of Spain, till the year 1746, in which that Monarch died. Together With the Alarms occasioned in several Courts of Europe, and the Civil Wars attempted to be kindled by her Means, in England and France; With her Famous Scheme for carrying the Duke of Orleans Prisoner from Versailles to Segovia, and many other Important Passages not known in the Histories of those Times. Translated from a Spanish manuscript.
Certain banished marquis.Date: 1746- Books
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Memoirs of Elizabeth Farnesio, the present Queen of dowager of Spain. Containing her intrigues and ambitious views, from the Year 1714, in which she was married to Philip V. King of Spain, till the year 1746, in which that Monarch died. Together With the Alarms occasioned in several Courts of Europe, and the Civil Wars attempted to be kindled by her Means, in England and France; With her Famous Scheme for carrying the Duke of Orleans Prisoner from Versailles to Segovia, and many other Important Passages not known in the Histories of those Times. Translated from a Spanish manuscript, written by a certain banished Marquis, for having adhered to the present King of Spain's Interest, while Prince of Asturias.
Certain banished marquis.Date: 1746- Pictures
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A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.
Baptiste, Sylvestre, 1791-1859.Date: 1828Reference: 16519i- Books
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Rymbegla, sive rudimentum computi ecclesiastici et annalis veterum Islandorum, in qvo etiam continentur chronologica, geographica, astronomica, geometrica, theologica, nonnulla ex historia universali & naturali rariora / Qvam ex manuscriptis Legati Arna-Magnæani versione Latina, lectionum varietate, notis in materiam computisticam, indice vocum Rymbeglæ propriarum, & rerum in partem historicam auxit Stephanus Biörnonis Isl. Addita sunt 1. Talbyrdingus ejusdem notis illustratus, 2. Oddi astronomi Somnia, 3. Joh. Arnæ et 4. Finni Johannæi Horologia.
Date: 1780- Books
Frankie : the woman who saved millions from thalidomide / James Essinger and Sandra Koutzenko ; foreword by Sir Harold Evans.
Essinger, James, 1957-Date: 2019- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000886 - C0000909
Date: 1999Reference: WT/B/11/1/24Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000641 - C0000690
Date: 1997-1998Reference: WT/B/11/1/16Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
La scuola medica salernitana : gli autori e i testi : convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004 / a cura di Danielle Jacquart, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani.
Date: 2007- Books
Love, madness, and scandal : the life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck / Johanna Luthman.
Luthman, JohannaDate: 2017- Books
The dancing plague / [written and illustrated by] Gareth Brookes ; [foreword by Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval Studies, Birkbeck, University of London].
Brookes, GarethDate: 2021- Books
From provincial savant to Parisian naturalist : the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) / edited and introduced by Laurence Brockliss.
Amoreux, Pierre Joseph, 1741-1824Date: [2017]- Pictures
A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 20598i- Pictures
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A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 546400i- Books
Brain chemistry and the French connection, 1791-1841 : an account of the chemical analyses of the human brain by Thouret (1791), Fourcroy (1793), Vauquelin (1811), Couerbe (1834), and Frémy (1841) : a second sourcebook in the history of neurochemistry / Donald B. Tower.
Tower, Donald B. (Donald Bayley), 1919-2007.Date: [1994]- Pictures
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The birth of King Louis XIII. Engraving by B. Audran the elder after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [1710]Reference: 17562iPart of: Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg.- Books
Normality : a critical genealogy / Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens.
Cryle, P. M. (Peter Maxwell), 1946-Date: 2017