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The Seaman of Plymouth. In four parts. Part I. William witchcraft's courtship to Susan Cole, both of Plymouth; with an account of her sickness, which disappointed the wedding. Part II. The deceitfulness of her parents, who sent her to Holland, because she would not marry a 'squire and break her former vow. Part III. William's great fortune in obtaining riches with the account of Susan's pretended death, which afterwards he found to be the deceitfulness of her parents, in finding her by good fortune at the hague. Part IV. His return to England with his love, with an account of their happy wedding; concluding with the pleasant pastime between the parents and the daughter, while they did not know their child though in their presence. Licenced and entered according to order.
Date: between 1750 and 1800?]- Books
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The saviour's heart. A fragment. Written by the late Henry Peckwell, D. D. Published for the Benefit of The Sick Man's Friend.
Peckwell, Henry, 1747-1787.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Pictures
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A baffled doctor taking the pulse of a love-sick young woman, her maid slips a billet-doux secretly into her hand. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 11202i- Books
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Healths grand preservative: or The womens best doctor : A treatise, shewing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh without a due observation of time, or nature of the creature, which hath proved very destructive to the health of many. Together, with a rational discourse of the excellency of herbs, highly approved of by our ancestors in former times. And the reasons why men now so much desire the flesh more than other food. A work highly fit to be persued and observed by all that love their health, and particularly necessary to the female sex, on whose good or ill constitution the health and strength, or sickness and weakness of all posterity does in a more especial manner depend. By Tho. Tryon.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: 1682- Books
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Healths grand preservative: or The womens best doctor : A treatise, shewing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh without a due observation of time, or nature of the creature which hath proved very destructive to the health of many. Together, with a rational discourse of the excellency of herbs, highly approved of by our ancestors in former times. And the reasons why men now so much desire the flesh more than other food. A work highly fit to be persued and observed by all that love their health, and particularly necessary to the female sex, on whose good or ill constitution the health and strength, or sickness and weakness of all [cropped]sterity does in a more especial manner depend. By Tho. Tryon.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: 1682- Pictures
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World War One: a young soldier lies dying in a woman's arms on a deserted battlefield. Colour halftone, c. 1915, after D. Tennant.
Tennant, Dudley, active 1915.Date: 1915Reference: 24093i- Pictures
A frail and wounded soldier being saved from death by the care of his young wife. Etching by B. Roger after L. Sicard.
Sicard, Louis Marie, 1746-1825.Reference: 24447i- Pictures
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A white telephone on a pale grey background, advertising AIDS counselling services offered by health authorities and voluntary orgaqnizations; with the message ''AIDS affects us all. Least of all the sick. Save the love". Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 675396i- Pictures
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A mother sick in bed with her children before her. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.
Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945.Date: 1920Reference: 38569iPart of: Drei Flugblätter gegen den Wucher- Books
Poor little sick girls : a love letter to unacceptable women / Ione Gamble.
Gamble, IoneDate: 2022- Pictures
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A couple look out on to a sea sunset with two further images depicting two men in a forest setting with a machete and a sick man being held by the wrist; a warning about AIDS in the form of a film poster by the South Pacific Commission. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669715i- Books
Loving medicine : patients' experiences of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre / Rosy Thomson ; foreword by Clive Wood.
Thomson, RosyDate: 1989- Books
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The new universal letter writer, or The whole art of general correspondence; for both sexes: consisting of a series of the most interesting and instructive entire new letters, on every occurence in life. By which any parson who can use the pen, may write letters on any subject, with propriety and elegance. In which proper regard has been paid to the following heads; trade, affection, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, instruction, history, commerce, industry, prosperity, prudence, gratitude, generosity, misfortunes, consolation, prodigality, virtue, vice, piety, wit, mirth, folly, pleasure, humanity, memory, morality, education, happiness, business, sickness, death, integrity, oeconomy, affluence, politeness, fidelity, riches, duty and concerns of parents, children, and other relations; and other numerous and entertaining particulars, too numerous to mention in this title page. To which is added, a course of cards, or notes of compliments, together with the universal petitioner, comprehending the greatest variety of petitions, adapted every situation. To the whole are also added, precedents of leases, bonds, letters of attorney, wills, mortgages, wills and powers, indentures, &c. agreeable to the forms in which they are now executed by eminent attorneys. By Thomas Chapman, author of the Communicant's companion.
Chapman, Thomas, schoolmaster.Date: [1790?]- Pictures
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A love sick man taking some of Doctor Hymen's pills to try and cure himself. Watercolour painting.
Reference: 11860i- Books
An extra pair of hands : a story of caring, ageing & everyday acts of love / Kate Mosse.
Mosse, Kate, 1961-Date: 2021- Pictures
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An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Line engraving by Th.-F. Vi-., 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805.Date: 1781Reference: 17044i- Pictures
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A woman weeping over her dead lover. Drawing, c. 1793.
Date: 1793?Reference: 31701i- Pictures
A love-sick gentleman being advised by another to drink wine: a drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--.
Vincent, Richard, approximately 1701?-1783.Reference: 26268i- Books
The caregivers : a support group's stories of slow loss, courage, and love / Nell Lake.
Lake, NellDate: 2014- Books
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Charity to the poor and afflicted, the duty and interest of the prosperous: a sermon, preached at the desire of the Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick, on sabbath, Jan. 1. 1797. By Andrew Lothian, Minister Of The Associate Congregation, Portsburgh.
Lothian, Andrew.Date: 1797- Books
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The hospitals inquiry and some of the questions connected with it.
Asher, G. M. (Georg Michael), -1905.Date: [1900]- Books
Lobster for Josino : fabulous food for our final days / Peter Morgan-Jones [and 3 others].
Morgan-Jones, PeterDate: [2018]- Books
The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance / Marion A. Wells.
Wells, Marion A.Date: 2007- Pictures
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A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.Date: 1847Reference: 24455i- Pictures
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Two women tending to a man sick with AIDS surrounded by 4 men in a rural setting within a brown and mustard lined decorative border; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by S. Ghosh for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
Date: March 1995Reference: 677451i