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'Of fleebotomye or blud letting', followed by 'The quallyties of ye xii signes as they be devyded into triplicates'
Date: c.1575Reference: MS.7117/17
Part of: English Medical Compendium, 16th century
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Some arguments against enlarging the power of bishops, in letting of leases. With Remarks on some Queries Lately published.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1723
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A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Reference: 15546i
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Observations on blood-letting founded upon researches on the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood / by Marshall Hall.
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.Date: 1836
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A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
Date: 1780Reference: 45017i
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Observations on blood-letting. Founded upon researches on the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood ... / [Marshall Hall].
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.Date: 1836
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Harvvards phlebotomy: or, A treatise of letting of bloud : fitly seruing, as well for an aduertisement and remembrance to well minded chirurgians, as also to giue a caueat generally to all men to beware of the manifold dangers, which may ensue vpon rash and vnaduised letting of bloud. Comprehended in two bookes: written by Simon Harvvard.
Harward, Simon, active 1572-1614Date: 1601
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A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.
Reference: 45002i
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Operators letting blood from the arm of a woman in a room crowded with pharmacy jars. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704.Reference: 44757i
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Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
Date: 1813Reference: 12207i
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Bleeding through the ages : blood-letting, barber surgeons, shaving and bleeding bowls : some lessons for today / by A. Lawrence Abel.
Abel, A. Lawrence.Date: [1969]
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Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifics, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / [Thomas Fowler].
Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801Date: 1795
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The medulla oblongata in its relations with sexual disorder, and on local blood-letting as a means of treatment / by Alexander Harkin.
Harkin, Alexander.Date: [1884]
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Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / [Hugh Smith].
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789Date: 1772
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Remarks on Dr. Bennett's paper on blood-letting and antiphlogistic treatment, in the Edinburgh medical journal for March 1857 / by W.T. Gairdner.
Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.Date: 1857
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Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler.
Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.Date: 1795
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Essays physiological and practical, on the nature and circulation of the blood. And the effects and uses of blood-letting / By Hugh Smith.
Smith, Hugh, 1730?-1790Date: 1761
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Two men catching partridges by trapping them in a net and letting a dog track the birds down. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822.Date: 21 February 1799Reference: 41686i
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Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / By Hugh Smith.
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.Date: 1781
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Harwards phlebotomy; or, a treatise of letting of bloud, fitly serving, as well for an advertisement and remembrance to well minded chirurgians, as also to give a caveat generally to all men to beware of the manifold dangers, which may ensue upon rash and unadvised letting of bloud. Comprehended in two bookes ... / [Simon Harward].
Harward, Simon, active 1572-1614Date: 1601
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De minutione sanguinis, sive De phlebotomia = On blood-letting or phlebotomy / by the Venerable Bede ; a translation and commentary by Elizabeth Lazenby.
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.Date: 1993
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Tables illustrating the effects of the employment of blood-letting in the treatment of cholera, in the Castlehill Hospital in 1832 / by G. Hamilton Bell.
Bell, G. Hamilton.Date: 1849
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An essay on the utility of blood-letting in fever ... with some inquiry into the seat and nature of this disorder / By Thomas Mills.
Mills, Thomas.Date: 1813
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Native surgery [tattooing, torso decoration, blood letting, with negatives]; a pagan tribe, Northern Nigeria; Native Administration Hospital and School, Northern Nigeria; a malarial infant with malnutrition
Date: 1930s-1940sReference: WTI/ALC/1
Part of: Lovett-Campbell, Alexander Cosby
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The proceedings of the Select Committee for letting the lands adjoining to the Foundling Hospital, on building leases. Reported to the General Quarterly Court, December 29, 1790.
Foundling Hospital (London, England)Date: 1791]

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'Of fleebotomye or blud letting', followed by 'The quallyties of ye xii signes as they be devyded into triplicates'

Some arguments against enlarging the power of bishops, in letting of leases. With Remarks on some Queries Lately published.

A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Observations on blood-letting founded upon researches on the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood / by Marshall Hall.

A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.

Observations on blood-letting. Founded upon researches on the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood ... / [Marshall Hall].

A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.

Operators letting blood from the arm of a woman in a room crowded with pharmacy jars. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.

Bleeding through the ages : blood-letting, barber surgeons, shaving and bleeding bowls : some lessons for today / by A. Lawrence Abel.

Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifics, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / [Thomas Fowler].

The medulla oblongata in its relations with sexual disorder, and on local blood-letting as a means of treatment / by Alexander Harkin.

Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / [Hugh Smith].

Remarks on Dr. Bennett's paper on blood-letting and antiphlogistic treatment, in the Edinburgh medical journal for March 1857 / by W.T. Gairdner.

Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler.

Essays physiological and practical, on the nature and circulation of the blood. And the effects and uses of blood-letting / By Hugh Smith.

Two men catching partridges by trapping them in a net and letting a dog track the birds down. Etching by W. S. Howitt.

Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / By Hugh Smith.

De minutione sanguinis, sive De phlebotomia = On blood-letting or phlebotomy / by the Venerable Bede ; a translation and commentary by Elizabeth Lazenby.

Tables illustrating the effects of the employment of blood-letting in the treatment of cholera, in the Castlehill Hospital in 1832 / by G. Hamilton Bell.

An essay on the utility of blood-letting in fever ... with some inquiry into the seat and nature of this disorder / By Thomas Mills.

Native surgery [tattooing, torso decoration, blood letting, with negatives]; a pagan tribe, Northern Nigeria; Native Administration Hospital and School, Northern Nigeria; a malarial infant with malnutrition

The proceedings of the Select Committee for letting the lands adjoining to the Foundling Hospital, on building leases. Reported to the General Quarterly Court, December 29, 1790.