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Commentarii in Hippocratis de aere, aquis et locis opus ... Accedunt praeterea ante quoque non impressa ... / D. Hieronymi Cardani ad ... Cardinalem I. Alciatum oratio admirabilia continens multa, quam Tricipitis Geryonis aut Cerberi canem autor appellat. Quod tria capita complectatur, de medicorum inscitia, et occidendi homines licentia, variisque erroribus. Item, Joan. Baptistae Cardani ... de fulgure liber unus. Item, D. Hier. Cardani consilia tria in gravissimis variisque morbis.
Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576Date: 1570- Archives and manuscripts
Two annotated interleaved publications by Cornelius Benjamin Fox: Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A Handbook for the Medical Officer of Health (1878) and Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A vade-mecum for the Medical Officer of Health (1886)
Fox, Cornelius Benjamin (1839-1922), MD Edin, MRCS, LSA, FRCP (1880)Date: 1878-1886Reference: MSS.8561-8562- Pictures
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A flying fish and its enemies of the air and water, including an albatros and a dolphin. Etching by J. Basire.
Reference: 42011i- Ephemera
Directions for treating persons in the small pox : avoid all flesh, gross things, wine, spirits, beer and cider, and all heating strong herbs and spices.
Date: [1820?]- Archives and manuscripts
Off-air recording: Discussion of childbirth with Jane Allen, Polly Toynbee et al. on Radio Scotland, and Woman's Hour: Underwater Birth
Date: 1986-1991Reference: SA/NCT/N/2/3/6Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)- Books
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The effects of DDT sprayed from the air against larval and adult West African mosquitoes / the Colonial Office.
Date: 1945- Books
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A companion to the watering and bathing places of England. containing their amusements, curiosities, antiquities, seats in their vicinities, chief inns, and distances from London. To which are added, a medical analysis of their mineral waters; observations on the air, &c. and a dissertation On the external and internal Use of Sea-Water, and Warm and Cold Bathing; pointing out the diseases in which the marinf fluid is admissible and efficacious.
Date: 1800- Books
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A discourse of the state of health in the island of Jamaica : with a provision therefore calculated from the air, the place, and the water, the customs and manner of living &c. / by Thomas Trapham.
Trapham, Thomas, -1692?Date: 1679- Pictures
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People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1834Reference: 37253i- Books
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A discourse of the state of health in the island of Jamaica : with a provision therefore calculated from the air, the place, and the water: the customs and manners of living, &c. ... / By Thomas Trapham.
Trapham, Thomas, -1692?Date: 1679- Books
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An exposition of the practice of affusing cold water on the surface of the body, as a remedy for the cure of fever : to which are added, remarks on the effects of cold drink, and of gestation in the open air in certain conditions of that disease / by Robert Jackson, M.D.
Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.Date: 1808- Books
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Change of air and scene : a physicians hints; with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland & sea-ward,) Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / Alphonse Donné.
Donné, Alfred, 1801-1878.Date: 1872- Ephemera
Warm and medicated bath establishment : 5, New Broad Street, near the Excise Office / Dr. Culverwell (proprietor).
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]- Books
Nature and the medicine man : natural cures v. patent drugs : Look to your health. If you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Books
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The brighthelmston directory: containing a description of that town, its soil, air, spring and mineral-waters, amusements, &c. with some account of its history, antiquities, Fishery, and Sea-Bathing; the times of sailing of the Pacquet-Boats; the Stage-Coaches, &c. their Inns, and time of setting out, Post-Roads to it, &c. Including Several Observations and Particulars, which will be found useful and entertaining to the Company frequenting that Place.
Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
Holism in ancient medicine and its reception / edited by Chiara Thumiger.
Date: [2021]- Pictures
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A steep rock face in the sea is populated by a large number of animals. Coloured etching by R. Scott and J. Stewart.
Reference: 41100i- Pictures
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Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19085i- Pictures
Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19083i- Pictures
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Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19073i- Pictures
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Colombia: a shed on the banks of a lagoon of the River Cienega. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
Empson, Charles, active 1836.Date: [1836]Reference: 678012iPart of: Places in Colombia. Coloured etchings and lithographs by C. Empson, 1836.- Film
Little man big city.
Date: 1967- Books
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An universal system of water and water-works, philosophical and practical. In four books. Faithfully digested, from the most approv'd writers on this subject, by Stephen Switzer. Containing I. An Historical Account of the Chief Water-Works that were and are remarkable in Ancient and Modern Times; more particularly the Roman Aqueducts, &c. and the Honour they have contributed to the respective Places where they have been used. II. The Different Hypotheses which have been laid down concerning the Original and Rise of Springs; of the Good and Bad Properties of Water; the Best Manner of Discovering and Searching for Springs; and the Taking of True Levels, in order for the Conducting Water to its several intended Uses. III. Hydrostatical Experiments (relating to the Motion of Water) selected from the Most-Celebrated Foreign and English Authors, more particularly Boyle, Hooke, Wallis, Lowthorpe, &c. Also the full Description and Uses of Mechanical Engines for the Forcing Water to great Heights, and applying the same to the Watering Gentlemens Seats and Gardens, in a better Manner than any hitherto extant. IV. Some Curious Disquisitions concerning the Vacuum of the Ancients; the Gravitation of Fluids; the Elasticity, Dilatation, and Compression of Air; the best Methods of Conveying Water, and for making Reservoirs, Basons, Cascades, Cataracts, Rural Grotesque Canals, Fountains, and all Kinds of Ornamental Water-Works. V. A Collection of Desions for this Purpose from the most eminent Masters, finely Engraven on Sixty Copper-Plates. In two volumes.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Change of air and scene : a physician's hints with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland and seaward), Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / by Alphonse Donné.
Donné, Alfred, 1801-1878.Date: 1872- Books
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Change of air and scene : a physician's hints with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland and seaward), Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / by Alphonse Donne.
Donné, Alfred, 1801-1878.Date: 1872