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Defectives in the land : disability and immigration in the age of eugenics / Douglas C. Baynton.
Baynton, Douglas C.Date: [2016]- Pictures
The word "Aussatz" (leprosy) in grey and black letters with the texture of broken and decayed concrete. Lithograph after KGSZ Ulrich Kemmner, 196-.
Kemmner, Ulrich (Graphic designer?)Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 574963i- Books
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Satyrical reflections on clubs: in twenty nine chapters. 1 Of Clubs in General. 2 The Vertuoso's Club. 3 The Knights of the Golden Fieece. 4 The No-Nose Club. 5 The Man-Killing Club. 6 The Surly Club. 7 The Atheistical Club. 8 The Club of Ugly-Faces. 9 Of the Split-Farthing Club. 10 The Club of Broken Shop-Keepers. 11 The Man-Hunters Club. 12 The Yorkshire Club. 13 The Mock-Heroes Club. 14 The Beaus Club. 15 The Wrangling, or Hussel-Farthing Club. 16 The Quacks Club; or, the Physical Society. 17 The Weekly Dancing Club; or the Buttock-Ball in St. Giles's. 18 The Bird-Fanciers Club; and of their Annual Feast. 19 The Lying Club; and how it came to be establish'd. 20 The Scatter-Wit Club. 21 The Florists Club. 22 Bob Weden's Cellar Club. 23 The Mollies Club. 24 The Bawds Initiating Club. 25 Sam Scot's Smoaking Club. 26 The Thieves Club. 27 The Small-Coal Man's Musick Club. 28 The Kit-Cat Club. 29 The Beef-Stake Club. By the author of the London-Spy. Volume IV.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Archives and manuscripts
Basset Hound Data Cards: U and V
Date: 1897Reference: GALTON/2/5/9/1/24Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Papers sent to Rycroft and kept by him:P-W
Date: 1920s-1990sReference: PP/RYC/F.3/4Part of: Rycroft, Dr Charles (1914-1998)- Pictures
The word "Aussatz" (leprosy) in black letters with the texture of shuttered concrete; below, a seated man with leprosy, unable to stand, supporting his knees with a stick. Lithograph by Michel Dumas (?), 196-.
Dumas, Michel (Graphic designer?)Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 575052i- Books
The transgender issue : trans justice is justice for all / Shon Faye.
Faye, Shon, 1988-Date: 2022- Pictures
The artist (presumably J.F. de Göz) seated outside drawing a woman with exposed breasts for a portfolio of drawings about love. Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J.F. de Göz.
Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815.Date: [1784?]Reference: 2957114i- Books
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The relation of man to the animal world.
Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.Date: 1907- Pictures
Elfrida meeting King Edgar after her marriage to Athelwold. Engraving by William Wynne Ryland, 1786, after Angelica Kauffman.
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807.Date: 1786Reference: 677353i- Books
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A practical and philosophical scheme of the secret disease. With a Supplement of Dr. Boyle, Sydenham, Pontesque, and others Observations and Experiments, and select Ones of the Author's, which Gentlemen never yet knew, and till this time wanted; Particularly to know an infected Person from a clean one, altho in the Dark. Teaching unfortunate Persons, who seriously wish their Recovery. First, To understand exactly their own Case, viz. Whether infected or not: In what Degree of Malignity, and if perfectly well after former Cures. Secondly, To cure themselves in few Days of secret Injuries, Owzings, Gleets, Runnings, Swellings, Inflammations, Breakings Out, and other Weaknesses, as well as if many eminent Physicians attended 'em: Also gnawing Pains, old Gleets, hard Testicles, fistulated Ulcers or Buboes, Excrescencies, Salty Tast, excessive Heat or Cold, Vertigo, Stinking or Shortness of Breath, Load on the Stomach, Phthisick, Consumption, Hoarseness, Cramp, ugly Fevers, Obstructions, Evil, Dropsy, Gout, Rheumatism and All other Maladies occasion'd by former ill Cures, without the least Confinement or Suspicion, even of their Bosom Friend; and that by the Royal Specifick, the Dose being but a Grain, so innocent and pleasant as not to create nauseous Risings in the Stomach like others; working so easy, pursuing so closely, and overcoming its Enemies so soon, altho' in the inmost parts, as is admir'd by all, carrying off the Malignity by all secretory and excretory Ways; and perfectly Cures not only the 1st, 2d, but also the 3d Stage, which is acknowledged by most to be incurable, which clearly shews the Truth of all that is here asserted.
Date: 1718?]- Books
Stand up straight! : a history of posture / Sander L. Gilman.
Gilman, Sander L.Date: 2018- Books
Letter to Time Magazine / Harvey Cushing.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.Date: 1969- Books
It's all in your head : the link between mercury amalgams and illness / Hal A. Huggins.
Huggins, Hal A.Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
Divorce, as I see it / Bertrand Russell [and others].
Date: 1930- Pictures
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A head in profile to left. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: Nov. 70 [November 1970]Reference: 2870397iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Immeasurable weather : meteorological data and settler colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy / Sara J. Grossman.
Grossman, Sara J.Date: 2023- Archives and manuscripts
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'Queen [Mary]'
Date: 1931-1936Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Sai/A.69Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Fragile science : the reality behind the headlines / Robin Baker.
Baker, Robin, 1944-Date: 2001- Books
Living with Leonardo : fifty years of sanity and insanity in the art world and beyond / Martin Kemp.
Kemp, MartinDate: 2018- Books
Graphic women : life narrative and contemporary comics / Hillary L. Chute.
Chute, Hillary L.Date: [2010]- Books
The epigenetics revolution : how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease, and inheritance / Nessa Carey.
Carey, Nessa.Date: 2011- Pictures
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A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Date: [1832]Reference: 33188i- Books
Hope in hell : inside the world of Doctors Without Borders / Dan Bortolotti.
Bortolotti, Dan.Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
The label : a story for families / Caroline White ; with illustrations by Sandra Isaksson.
White, CarolineDate: 2017