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Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.
Lubinski, Kurt, 1899-1969.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 646061i- Books
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Manual of artificial limbs : artificial toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, arms, for amputations and deformities, appliances for excisions, fractures, and other disabilities of lower and upper extremities, suggestions on amputations, treatment of stumps, history, ... an exhaustive exposition of prothesis.
Marks, George E. (George Edwin), 1853-1932Date: 1910- Pictures
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A man with a wooden leg carrying arms and legs in a basket; representing the relation between the whole and its parts in Aristotelian logic. Engraving by L. Gaultier, ca. 1613.
Gaultier, Léonard, 1561-1641.Date: [1610?]Reference: 571261i- Pictures
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Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish entertainer, at a prosthesis stand at a Daily Mail exhibition, Olympia, 1921: one man with an arm prosthesis lights his pipe, a second demonstrates the equipment. Photograph, 1921.
Date: 1921Reference: 578082i- Books
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The history of Scarbrough-Spaw, or, A further discovery of the excellent vertues thereof in the cure of the scurvy, hypochond. melancholy, stone, gonorrhea, agues, jaundies, dropsie, womens diseases, &c : By many remarkable instances, being a demonstration from the most convincing arguments, viz. matter of fact. Also a discourse of an artificial sulphur-bath, and each of sea-water, with the uses thereof in the cure of many diseases. Together with a short account of other rarities of nature observable at Scarbrough. By W. Sympson doct. in physick.
Simpson, William, M.DDate: 1679- Videos
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Engineering in medicine.
Date: 1971- Videos
Brett: A life with no arms.
Date: 2015- Books
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The Britannian magazine: or, A new art of making above twenty sorts of English wines : viz, of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, sloes, damasins, quinces, figgs, goosberries, mulberries, currens, blackberries, elderberries, roses, carnations, cowslips, scurvy-grass, mint, and balm, &c. More pleasant and agreeable to the English constitution than those of France. With the way of making brandy and other spirits: as likewise how to make artificial clarets, rhenish, &c. The second edition. To which is added, the foundation of the art of distillation: or the true and genuine way of making malt into low-wines, proof-spirits, and brandy-wines, compliant to the late act of Parliament concerning distillation. By W.Y. M.D.
Y-Worth, W. (William)Date: 1694- Books
M. Masters & Sons Ltd., established 1849 : manufacturers of artificial legs, arms & eyes, surgical boots, abdominal belts, trusses and every kind of orthopædic appliance sole manufacturers in the British Empire of the Bristol trepanning dissector.
M. Masters & Sons Ltd.Date: [1930]- Books
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The new, universal, and complete confectioner; being the whole art of confectionary made perfectly plain and easy. Containing a full account of all the various methods of preserving and candying, both dry and liquid, all kinds of fruit, flowers and herbs; also the various ways of clarifying sugar; and the various methods of keeping fruit, nuts, and flowers, fresh and fine all the year round. Together with directions for making blomonge, biscuits, rich-cakes, rock-works and candies, custards, jellies, creams and icecreams, whip syllabubs, and cheese-cakes of all sorts. Sweetmeats, English wines of all sorts, strong cordials, simple waters, mead, oils, &c. syrups of all kinds, milk punch that will keep twenty years, knicknacks and trifles for deserts, &c. &c. &c. Including likewise the modern art of making artificial fruit, with the stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural fruit. To which, among many other useful articles, are added, several bills of fare for deserts for private families, &c. &c. The whole revised, corrected, and improved, by Mrs. Elizabeth Price, of Berkley Square; author of that excellent little cheap book entitled (to distinguish it from all old and spurious publications of the kind) the new book of cookery, price only 1s. Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
Price, Elizabeth, Mrs.Date: [1785?]- Videos
How to build a bionic man.
Date: 2013- Books
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The history of many memorable things in use among the ancients, but now lost. And an account of many excellent discoveries made by and now in use among the moderns, both Natural and Artificial. Translated from the original of Guido Pancirollus, Illustrated with Curious Remarks, Pleasant Relations, and useful Discourses. To which is added, The History of Printing, shewing the Time of its Beginning, and of Books printed before the Year 1500. Together With the History of what the Moderns have found which the Ancients never knew. Taken from the Writings of Bishop Sprat, Mr. Boyle, and the Royal Societies of London and Paris. ...
Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599.Date: 1727- Digital Images
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Prosthesis, 16th century; A. Pare
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A system of rational and practical chirurgery. Wherein all the general intentions, whether natural or artificial, are accounted for and explained; according to the Principles of the Corpuscular Philosophy, and the evident Qualities of Medicines. Together with the Causes, Diagnosticks, Prognosticks, and Method of Cure, of Tumours, Ulcers, Wounds, Fractures and Dislocations. To which is added, An Index of Medicines, and their evident Qualities. By Richard Boulton, late of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford.
Boulton, Richard, 1676 or 1677-Date: 1713- Books
Arbeitsarm für Schwerbeschädigte / Bundesinstitut für Arbeitsschultz, Soest. Abt[eilung]. Schwerbeschädigte.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Books
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The new British traveller; or, a complete modern universal display of Great-Britain and Ireland: Being a New, Complete, Accurate, and Extensive Tour Through England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isles of Man, Wight, Scilly, Hebrides, Jersey, Sark, Guernsey, Alderney, And other Islands adjoining to and dependent on the Crown of Great-Britain. Comprising all that is worthy of Observation in every County, Shire, &c. And containing a full, ample, and circumstantial Account of every Thing remarkable in the several Cities, Market-Towns, Boroughs, Hundreds, Villages, Hamlets, Parishes, &c. throughout these Kingdoms. Being calculated equally to please the Polite - entertain the Curious - instruct the Uninformed - and direct the Traveller. The Whole Clearly and Accurately Displayed under the Following General Heads: Situation, Etymology, Extent, Roads, Capes, Battles, Sieges, Skirmishes, Civil Commotions, Trading and other Companies, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Offices, Earthquakes, Storms, Inundations, and other singular Occurrences, Rocks, Rivers, Mines, Grottos, Abbey-Lands, Fossils, Caves, Hills, Moors, Springs, Woods, Antiquities-Roman, Danish, and Saxon; Minerals, Plants, Agriculture, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Amphibious Creatures, Castles, Manors, Military Ways, Camps, Docks, Harbours, Bays, Havens, Markets, Fairs, Canals, Buildings, Fortifications, Palaces, Seats, Parks, Bridges, Forests, Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parish Churches, Monuments, Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions, Corporations, Charters, Charitable Foundations, Institutions, &c. Customs, Manners, &c. Handicrafts, Commodities, Military and Naval Exploits, Lives of all such Persons as have done Honor to the Counties, Towns, or Villages in which they were born, whether Kings, Princes, Peers, Generals, Admirals, Divines, Lawyers, Physicians, Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Legislators, &c. Government, Manufactures, Trades, Commerce, Revenues, Forces, Naval and Military, Polity, Power and Prerogative of the King, Laws, Prerogative, and Customs of the House of Lords, Privileges, Prerogative, & Usages of the House of Commons. Nature of the Legislature, and Modes of Proceeding in the various Courts of Justice, ancient and modern, &c. &c. &c. Being Really the Result of An actual and late General Survey, accurately made by a Society of Gentlemen, Each of whom has undertaken that Part for which his Study and Inclination has more immediately qualified him. And Including a Valuable Collection of Landscapes, Views, County-Maps, &c. Which Make an Admirable and Inimitable Groupe of Elegant Copper-Plate Prints. Also, A Complete Book of the Roads, a List of all the Fairs, and a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, Not to be found in any other Work of the Kind, but which are worthy the Notice of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, Travellers, Traders, and all Ranks of People whatever. The whole published under the immediate inspection of George Augustus Walpoole, Esq. Assisted in the Digest and Arrangement of the Articles respecting Wales, by David Wynne Evans, F. R. S. In those descriptive of Scotland, by Alexander Burnet, L. L. D. And in such as relate to Ireland, &c. by Robert Conway, A. M. And Others, to whom many valuable and curious Circumstances have been communicated (for this Work) by Gentlemen of Rank and Abilities. Embellished with upwards of one hundred and fifty large, grand, and superb views of the principal Cities and Towns in Great-Britain and Ireland; perspective Views of Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, Castles, Ruins, Abbies, Cataracts, Sea Pieces, Landscapes, natural and artificial Curiosities, correct County and other Maps, Charts, Historical Pieces, &c. drawn with critical Exactness by the most capital Painters and Designers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, namely Hamilton, Carter, Griffith, O'Neal, Dodd, Metz, &c. and engraved in the most masterly Manner by the following ingenious Artists, viz. Thornton, Pollard, Lodge, Page, Roberts, Royce, Taylor, Carey, Rennoldson, Wooding, Kitchen, Conder, Hawkins, Walker, Flyn, Simpson, Grainger, Hogg, Myers, Smyth, Clowes, and others, who have distinguished themselves by their great Abilities in the Polite Arts.
Date: 1784- Archives and manuscripts
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Boncambiis, Julius de
Boncambiis, Julius deDate: c. 1700Reference: MS.1297- Pictures
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An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 25 June 1791Reference: 26889i- Books
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A scheme for draining the great level of the fens, called bedford-level; And for improving the navigation of Lyn-Regis. Founded upon self-evident principles in experintental philosophy and practical mathematicks, and upon historical facts. And farther demonstrated, by comparing the River Ouse, with the River Thomas, &c. and Lyn-Harbour, with the Harbour of Rye. With reflections upon all the schemes hitherto proposed for draining the fens, shewing wherein they are defective. Also observations upon artificial-scours: shewing where, and in what cases they are, or can be of use; where not. Illustrated with a map. By Tho. Badeslade, author of The history of Lyn-navigation, and of draining in the fens.
Badeslade, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Pictures
A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
Date: 1806Reference: 26286i- Books
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A compleat body of arithmetick, in four books, Viz: Book I. Part 1. Integers. 2. Fractions. Book II. 1. Geodaeticals. 2. Figurals. Book III. 1. Decimals. 2. Astronomicals. Part 3. Logarithmes. 4. Cossicks. 5. Surds. 6. Algebra. Book IV. 1. Ratio's. 2. Proportions disjunct. 3. Proportions continued. 4. Aequations, &c. Wherein the Whole Nature of Numbers, with their Simple and Comparative Elements in all the Parts of Arithmetick, are plainly Declared, and fully Handled. Every Part Explain'd by Necessary Rules, Cases, Theorems, Questions, Observations, and Variety of Operations: Illustrated by sundry Tables, Diagrams, and very many Examples. Together with divers Etymologies, Symboles, Characters, and Abreviations for Artificial Terms, Words, Names, and Denominations: The Whole digested into a succinct, and orderly Method; and delivered in a familiar Style. To every Part is added, Excellent Rules of Practice; which makes it very Useful to Merchants, and all that would understand Accounts, or the Mathematical and Mechanical Arts and Sciences. With Many Large and Exact Tables of all Sorts of Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. Ancient and Modern, in most Countries, reduced to our own: The Best that has yet been extant. By Samuel Jeake, merchant.
Jeake, Samuel, 1623-1690.Date: MDCCI. [1701]- Books
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The elements of heraldry containing a clear definition, and concise historical account of that ancient, useful, and entertaining science. The Origin, Antiquity, and divers kinds of Coats-of-Arms, with their essential and integral Parts considered separately. The several sorts of Escutcheons, Tinctures, Charges and Ornaments used for Coats-of-Arms. The Marks whereby Bearers of the same Coat-of-Arms are distinguished from each other. Charges formed of Ordinaries, Celestial Figures, Animals, Birds, Fishes, Vegetables, Artificial and Chimerical Figures. The Laws of Heraldry; practical Directions for Marshalling Coats-of-Arms, and the Order of Precedency. Embellished With several fine Cuts, and twenty-four Copper-Plates, containing above five hundred different Examples of Escutcheons, Arms, &c. And interspersed with the natural History, and allegorical Signification of the several Species of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, &c. comprehended in this Treatise. To which is annexed, a dictionary of the technical terms made use of in heraldry. By Mark Anthony Porny, French-Master at Eton College.
Porny, Mr.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Archives and manuscripts
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Boncambiis, Julius de
Boncambiis, Julius deDate: c. 1700Reference: MS.1298- Pictures
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Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
King, Henry, 1855-1923.Date: [1890?]Reference: 644855i- Pictures
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A pregnant woman leading a donkey on which a discharged veteran, who has lost both his legs, is sitting carrying one of their children in a bucket. Etching with engraving by J. Caldwell after J. Collet, 1775.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: 30 May 1775Reference: 43853i