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Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Reference: 11631i- Pictures
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A child blowing bubbles. Engraving by J.G. Wille, 1761, after G. Netscher, 1670 (?).
Netscher, Caspar, 1635 or 1636-1684.Date: 1761Reference: 25998i- Pictures
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Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
Date: 1791Reference: 15982i- Pictures
A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 20598i- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Obadiah, riding a coach horse, knocks Dr. Slop off his pony, a sign points to Shandy Hall. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Reference: 22029i- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Obadiah riding a coach horse knocks Dr. Slop off his pony into a pond, a sign to Shandy Hall hangs over him. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 3 February 1773Reference: 22031i- Books
Bernard Siegfried Albinus (l697-1770) on 'human nature' : anatomical and physiological ideas in eighteenth century Leiden / H. Punt.
Punt, H. (Hendrik), 1947-Date: 1983- Pictures
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The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813.Reference: 26238i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his jaw in the background. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1777]Reference: 16474i- Pictures
A Dutch physician taking the pulse of a female patient, a urine flask in a wicker basket is on a table beside them. Engraving by P. Basan, 16--, after G. Ter Borch, the younger.
Ter Borch, Gerrit, the younger, 1617-1662.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 21645i- Pictures
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Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
Reference: 20635i- Books
Rape in the republic, 1609-1725 : formulating Dutch identity / by Amanda Pipkin.
Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)Date: 2013- Pictures
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A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1772Reference: 17426i- Pictures
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A man sits on a stool smoking a pipe, behind a man relieves himself against the wall. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1754, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1754]Reference: 24719i- 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
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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- Ephemera
Opticians ephemera. Box 1.
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The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.
Date: 9-11 April, 1987