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An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1824Reference: 15970i- Pictures
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A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
Orde, Thomas, 1746-1807.Date: 23d Feb.y 1774Reference: 29647i- Books
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The humble address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, In Parliament Assembled, presented to His Majesty On Wednesday the Eighteenth Day of January, 1726. With His Majesty's most gracious answer.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1726[1727]- Books
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Anecdotes relative to our affairs in Germany: carried back to The Debarking of the first British Regiment at Emden; and brought down to the present critical Time: in a series of letters to a noble lord in - shire. Authenticated By a Gentleman on the Spot, and confirmed by his Correspondents here, during the War. In this Tract is Elucidated The Nature of the French Commissariate; and a Parallel drawn between theirs, and the British Commissaries. As also An Explanation of the French Embodied Militia, and a comparison made, in Respect to our own.
Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
Medical theory and therapeutic practice in the eighteenth century : a transatlantic perspective / edited by Jürgen Helm, Renate Wilson.
Date: 2008- 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- Pictures
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A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: April 1827Reference: 11885i- Pictures
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A fashionable lady asking her doctor what ailments he can invent for her - so that she convince her husband to take her to Cannes. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
Prance, Bertram, 1889-Date: 1927Reference: 15478i- Pictures
A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
Holden, Albert William, 1848-1932.Date: [1900?]Reference: 45152i- Books
Tenants : the people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency / Vicky Spratt.
Spratt, VickyDate: 2022- Books
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A plan for redeeming two hundred & and thirty millions of the three per cent. funds, and for improving the public revenue more than Three Millions Three Hundred and Forty Two Thousand Pounds A Year, without raising any new taxes, and without diminishing the income of any person. By S. P. - a country gentleman.
S. P.Date: 1798- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop being attacked by Susannah with a saucepan, while the nurse holds the baby Tristram Shandy. Etching after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 22015iPart of: Twelve prints representing the most interesting sentimental and humorous scenes in Tristram Shandy- Books
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A memorial of the proceedings of the late ministery and Lower House of Parliament. With an account of several secret correspondences with foreign ministers of state, Letters and Messages, sent from London to Paris and Utrecht, and from Utrecht and Paris to London; Abstracts of Speeches, Addresses, Answers, &c. with Reflections upon each Head. To which is added, A short History of a Plot to dethrone Queen Anne, and what has been attempted to bring in the Romish Pretender, since the King ascended the Throne. At the end of the Memorial is a Black List of the Names of many of those Persons concern'd in one or both Conspiracies. Also Particulars cast up in it, of Men, Horses, Money, Provisions, Cloaths, Quarters, Arms, Ammunition, &c. promis'd to the Assistance of the Treason. Writ by the author of An inquiry into the miscarriages of the four last years reign The Copic are Counterseit that have not this Coat of Arms on the Title-Page, viz. A Bend engrail'd between Six Cinque - foils, Crest a Griffin's Head out of a Mural Coronet.
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743.Date: [1715]- Pictures
A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 12244i- Books
The Army nursing service in the eighteenth century / by Jessie Dobson.
Dobson, Jessie, 1906-1984.Date: 1954]- Pictures
An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1827Reference: 11861i- Books
The state trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell / edited by Brian Cowan.
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724Date: [2012]- Pictures
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An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Reference: 11903iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Pictures
William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself- Books
Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.
Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947-Date: [2016]- Books
A doctor's bill of 1743 / R.H. Osborne.
Osborne, R. H.Date: 1993- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin on his knees begging forgiveness from his loved one. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12141i- Pictures
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A patient alarmed at his doctor's request that he abstain from alcohol for a month. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1925.
Reynolds, Frank, 1876-1953.Date: 1925Reference: 15445i- Pictures
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Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
Burr, Alexander Hohenlohe, 1835-1899.Date: 4 April 1891Reference: 29212i- Pictures
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A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11201iPart of: G.T.B.s