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Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 12 December [1790?]Reference: 12178i- Pictures
Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
Date: 26 [month?] 1803Reference: 12205i- Pictures
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A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26943i- Pictures
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A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Coloured line engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1767, after J.-B. Greuze.
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805.Date: 1767Reference: 18202i- Pictures
N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: [26 February 1811]Reference: 16635i- Pictures
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The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 4 March 1796Reference: 12183i- Books
The limits of the human : fictions of anomaly, race, and gender in the long eighteenth century / Felicity A. Nussbaum.
Nussbaum, Felicity.Date: 2003- Books
The early modern subject : self-consciousness and personal identity from Descartes to Hume / Udo Thiel.
Thiel, Udo, 1954-Date: 2011- Pictures
Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [22 December 1726]Reference: 17342i- Pictures
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Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 6 March 1800]Reference: 20582i- Pictures
A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
Sneyd, John.Date: 14 March 1803Reference: 12191i- Ephemera
Welfare and orphanages ephemera. Box 1.
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Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum
Date: 1478Reference: MS.458- Books
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Rymbegla, sive rudimentum computi ecclesiastici et annalis veterum Islandorum, in qvo etiam continentur chronologica, geographica, astronomica, geometrica, theologica, nonnulla ex historia universali & naturali rariora / Qvam ex manuscriptis Legati Arna-Magnæani versione Latina, lectionum varietate, notis in materiam computisticam, indice vocum Rymbeglæ propriarum, & rerum in partem historicam auxit Stephanus Biörnonis Isl. Addita sunt 1. Talbyrdingus ejusdem notis illustratus, 2. Oddi astronomi Somnia, 3. Joh. Arnæ et 4. Finni Johannæi Horologia.
Date: 1780- Archives and manuscripts
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Miscellany of practical medicine, in Italian
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.Date: Late 14th CenturyReference: MS.307- Pictures
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Demons and witches arrive at the sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1755]Reference: 40371i- Pictures
Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1755Reference: 40368i