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Presence in the flesh : the body in medicine / Katharine Young.
Young, Katharine Galloway.Date: 1997- Books
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Esoptron astrologikon. Astrologicall opticks. : Wherein are represented the faces of every signe, with the images of each degree in the zodiack: thereby describing, 1. The nature and quality of every person, according to the degree ascending in the east at his nativity. 2. The virtue and signification of every planet through the 12. signes. 3. A most excellent description of the more hidden and abstruse influence of [symbol for Mercury] in his [symbol for conjunction] with all other the planets. 4. A clear explanation of the signification of the horoscope in any signe of the zodiack. / Compiled at Venice, by those famous mathematicians, Johann. Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus.
Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512.Date: [1655]- Books
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Esoptron Astrologikon. Astrological opticks : Wherein are represented the faces of every signe, with the images of each degree in the zodiack: thereby describing, 1. The nature and quality of every person, according to the degree ascending in the east at his nativity. 2. The virtue and signification of every planet through the 12. signes. 3. A most excellent description of the more hidden and abstruse influence of [symbol for Mercury] in his [symbol for conjunction] with all other the planets. 4. A clear explanation of the signification of the horoscope in any signe of the zodiack. / Compiled at Venice, by those famous mathematicians, Johann. Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus.
Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512Date: [1655]- Pictures
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A.J. Balfour as Prime Minister asks John Bull to pay for increasingly costly policies, but eventually John Bull refuses. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.
Wilson, David, 1873-1935.Date: 1905Reference: 573766i- Digital Images
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Hand covered in various symbols
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Cien emblemos Christianos tracados y declarados de diuersas doctrinas prouechosas y pias / por la noble donsella Georgette de Montenai ; publicados primero en lengua Francesa: mas aora, por seruicios de ingenios nobles y afficionados a tales materias traduizas en legua Latina, Espagnola, Italiana, Alemana, Flamenga, y Inglesa.
Montenay, Georgette de, 1540-approximately 1581Date: Anno MDCXIX. [1619]- Pictures
John Bull defending Britain against the invasion of cholera; comparing the Reform Bill to the cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
Reference: 12236i- Pictures
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a nurse bearing gifts and flowers on her way to work. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24097iPart of: Une journée à l'hopital- Pictures
King Charles I: Britannia mourns as he is executed and is raised into heaven by angels and cherubim. Engraving by B. Baron after J. Vanderbank.
Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739.Date: [1728]Reference: 2897021iPart of: Ten curious prints of the most remarkable transactions of the reign of King Charles 1st- Pictures
A dealer in inflated share-values in the Dutch share boom of 1720 is surrounded by symbols of inflation and corruption. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2500241iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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A beach in the Dardanelles with soldiers unloading medical supplies from a ship to Red Cross trucks. Colour halftone after N. Wilkinson, 1915.
Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1971.Date: 1 March 1916Reference: 24076i- Pictures
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A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.
Forbes-Robertson, Philippe.Date: 1918Reference: 15814i- Pictures
Charles James Fox holds the right hand of Lord North who points towards Britannia who has been pushed to the ground on to her shield as the Earl of Shelburne pulls her hair and tears her clothes and William Pitt the younger looks on. Engraving, 1783.
Date: May 20 1783Reference: 585272i- Videos
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The signs and stages of anaesthesia. No. 1.
Date: 1944- Archives and manuscripts
Nomancie Cabaliste
Date: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.3691- Books
Blood matters : studies in European literature and thought, 1400-1700 / edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp.
Date: [2018]- Digital Images
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Caricatural illustration of ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)
Madeleine Kuijper illustraties- Archives and manuscripts
Nelson, R.
Nelson, R.Date: Early 17th centuryReference: MS.577- Books
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The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, ænigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medalls, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphres and rebus. First written in French by Henry Estienne, Lord of Fossez, interpreter to the French King for the Latine and Greek tongues: and translated into English by Tho: Blount of the Inner Temple, Gent.
Estienne, Henry, sieur des FossezDate: 1646- Books
The image of Christ / Gabriele Finaldi ; with an introduction by Neil MacGregor ; and contributions by Susanna Avery-Quash[and others].
Finaldi, Gabriele.Date: [2000], ©2000- Pictures
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Lord North and the Earl of Mansfield stand on a platform addressing a group of distressed patriots beyond which ships of war sail and sink. Engraving, 1776.
Date: [1 Dec. 1776]Reference: 584820i- Books
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Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes : symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A.
Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646Date: M.DC. XXXIII. [1633]- Pictures
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Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
Chevalier, Sabine Stuart de, active 18th century.Date: 1781Reference: 37282i- Pictures
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The disease AIDS represented as a hole in the road, the advice "Stop AIDS" as a warning not to fall into the hole. Colour lithograph after I. Chadima, 1988.
Chadima, I.Date: 1988Reference: 668087i- Pictures
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A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38824iPart of: Splendor solis