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The chance of their lives.
Date: 1952- Archives and manuscripts
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Atkinson, Jane
Date: 28/08/2009Reference: TP1/A/1284Part of: One and Other Project- Books
Therapeutic landscapes : an evidence-based approach to designing healing gardens and restorative outdoor spaces / Clare Cooper Marcus, Naomi A. Sachs.
Marcus, Clare CooperDate: [2014]- Archives and manuscripts
107080/Z/15/Z: Taking a Turn: Mental Health History of Hospital Gardens
Date: 2015-2016Reference: WT/C/6/1/93Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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A thousand notable things. Containing modern curiosities. viz. Divers rare and experienced physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, planting, and grafting. To catch birds, fish, &c. To kill bugs, rats, mice, and all sorts of vermin. To make white-wine, claret, mead, cyder, punch, &c. The virtues and use of Dulwich waters. To take spots out of linen, wollen, paper, or parchment. Rules for the preservation of health. To make all sorts of ink, wax, and wasers. To educate children to learn languages speedily. Riddles, jests and stories. To dye bone. To order, encrease, and preserve bees. To make corn produce a tripple crop. How to make Covent-Garden purl, and Dr Butler's ale. How to make old people look young. To make leather last long. To make fine pictures. How to order all manner of pickles. To make window-sashes. The art of dying, colouring, perfuming, and gilding. With above nine hundred other curiosities, on various subjects. Also a new help to discourse, and directions to read, write, indite, and speak languages readily and speedily. Together with an alphabetical table to the whole, for the finding all the matters herein with ease.
Lupton, Thomas.Date: 1748- Archives and manuscripts
Arts for Health Photographs: "W"
Date: 1990sReference: ART/AFH/B/59Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Westminster and Chelsea Hospital, Arts for Health Project
Date: c.1993Reference: ART/AFH/A/25/9Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Books
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The countrie ague. Or, London her vvelcome home to her retired children : Together, with a true relation of the warlike funerall of Captaine Richard Robyns, one of the twentie captaines of the trayned bands of the citie of London, which was performed the 24. day of September last, 1625. in armes, in the time of this visitation which the rumour in the countrey went currant, that London had not people enough left aliue to bury her dead. By Henry Petovve, Marshall of the Artillerie Garden, London.
Petowe, HenryDate: 1626 [i.e. 1625]- Books
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The English-physicians dayly practise. Or, Culpeper's faithful physitian. Teaching every man and woman to be their own doctor : In this book is set forth near 40 most choice, excellent, and approved receipts in physick and chyrurgery, for the rooting out, and curing most diseases; with easie directions for making divers salves. oyntments. sear-cloths, and plaisters, for divers maladies, being a salve for every sore: and that at an easy rate. To which is added, Mr. Culpepper's new, excellent, and very useful herbal; being the rare vertues of XI. herbs and plants, growing in most gardens in England; on which herbs is framed near one hundred medicines, for curing most diseases in men, women and children; a great many of them but at a penny or two pence charge; being good tidings to the sick and lame, and all others that would preserve their bodies in health, by Dr. Nich. Culpepper, and Dr. Ponteus. The like not hitherto printed. Licensed and entred according to order. A table of some principal things in this little book. 1. For the rheum in the eyes, 2. For the stone.... 26. For a consumption. 27. For the green-si.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: [1680]- Archives and manuscripts
Arts & Health image library
Date: December 2000-November 2005Reference: ART/AFH/D/86Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Arts for Health Photographs: "Hospital Development"
Date: 2000-2001Reference: ART/AFH/B/20Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Books
Ninth annual report for the year 1st April, 1957 - 31st March, 1958 / Barnet Group Hospital Management Committee.
North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Barnet Group Hospital Management Committee.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- Film
Sickle cell fundamentals. Part I The Molecular Biology of Hemoglobins.
Date: 1978- Pictures
Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.
Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 1804-1874.Date: [1834?]Reference: 20318i- Archives and manuscripts
Appeals in conjunction with the National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare
Date: Apr 1930-May 1932Reference: SA/NBT/G.6/5Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Ephemera
Childcare ephemera. Box 2, Illnesses.
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Astrology. To the Public in general, and Curious in particular. Mrs. Roper, No. 9, Great Garden-Street, White-Chapel, having made it her chief Study for many Years, flatters herself that she is enabled to convince the most obstinate Unbelievers in this Art, of its usefulness, & thinks it her duty to inform those Ladies that are well wishers to this Study, that she continues to give her Judgement on all lawful questions, by the Planets, concerning Business, Trade, Commerce, Journeys by Land or Water, Marriages, Children, &c. or any lawful Question relating to Human Affairs. Attendance from 10 in the Morning till 8 at Night.
Roper, Mrs.Date: 1780?]- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+45.
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Curiosa arcana: being curious secrets, artificial and natural. In three parts. Containing, in the first part, Choice receipts to prevent or cure the plague, agues, fevers, and all other distempers incident to man. Secrets in Japanning, painting, and varnishing, so as to imitate marble, Jasper-Stone, &c. To dye skins a sine black that never fades. Secrets in hunting, fishing, fowling, house-keeping. To cure diseases in horses, hogs, dogs, &c. To destroy all sorts of vermin in house or field. Directions to beautifie the face, and cure diseases in women and children. To make perfumes, cordial waters, snuffs, to preserve wine, with other secrets of that nature. To order gardens for fruit, flowers, &c. To make artificial pearl and jewels; also fire-works. Receipts in cookery, and to make Sweetmeats, &c. To take spots or stains out of linnen or woollen. To make divers forts of ink. In the second part, the art of moulding, and casting medals in lead, tin, silver, copper, plaister of Paris, wax, or otherwise, as well hollow as solid. In the third part, excellent secrets for beautifying and rendering the face lively and agreeable. With several choice and approved secrets for beautifying the body, in several particulars. Try'd and approv'd by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French King. From the last edition in French; which contains near as much more as any other ormer edition. To which is added, a supplement of divers curiosities by the translator. The whole illustrated with copper plates, adapted to the several subjects.
Date: [1711]- Books
Peace through health : how health professionals can work for a less violent world / edited by Neil Arya and Joanna Santa Barbara.
Date: 2008- Pictures
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A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
Date: [1914]Reference: 667867i- Books
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Specification of Robert Wakefield : medicine.
Wakefield, Bob.Date: 1856- Videos
Bedlam.
Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
Playfair, John (1849-1933)
Playfair, John, 1849-1933Date: c. 1895, 1933Reference: MS.3922