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- Archives and manuscripts
Unsigned paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7226/1Part of: Medicinal Plants: miscellany- Books
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The evolution of Greater Britain's antiseptic house & town sewage-drainage systems of the twentieth century and after - for all time : with descriptions of the inherent defects of the 19th century systems and how to overcome those defects at great saving of expense : in an address to the President of the Local Government Board, pleading for a reform of the prevailing methods with explanatory, illustrative and critical appendices, copious drawings and diagrams, and full hydraulic, pneumatic and thermo-dynamical tables, corrected to the present date / by Isaac Shone.
Shone, Isaac.Date: 1914- Books
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A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- E-journals
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Victorian studies
Date: 1957-- Pictures
A doctor taking the pulse of his patient - convinced that his prescription of a clyster has been successful - unaware that she has eaten the clyster-pipe. Coloured etching by G. Grinagain, 1804.
Grinagain, Giles, active 1804.Date: 2 January 1804Reference: 11831i- Pictures
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An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1824Reference: 15970i- Pictures
A fashionable doctor visiting a fashionable lady patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1869.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1869Reference: 15688i- Books
The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.
Arnold-Forster, AgnesDate: 2021- E-journals
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Victorian literature and culture
Date: 1991-- Pictures
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A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
Date: 4 June 1806Reference: 16623i- Books
George Combe (1788-1858) - the pioneer of physiology teaching in British schools / by Jean P. Bremner.
Bremner, Jean P.Date: 1956- Books
Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.
Date: [2014]- Pictures
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The British Museum: the Egyptian Room, with visitors. Engraving by Radclyffe after B. Sly, 1844.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 1844Reference: 38465i- Books
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On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history : including the substances of a discourse on that subject, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the evening of Friday, April 26, 1861 / by Professor Owen.
Date: 1862- Pictures
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A patient asking her doctor his political leanings, he retorts that it varies - depending on who he is treating. Wood engraving after A.T. Smith.
Smith, Albert Talbot, 1877-Reference: 15665i- Pictures
An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1827Reference: 11861i- Student dissertations
The jurisprudence of infanticide in nineteenth century Britain : mortality of the victim or mentality of the accused - a medical uncertainty ? / Pippa Cox.
Cox, Pippa.Date: 1994- Pictures
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A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: April 1827Reference: 11885i- Pictures
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A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 11869i- Pictures
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A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1836]Reference: 32377i- Books
The greedy queen : eating with Victoria / Annie Gray.
Gray, Annie (Food historian)Date: 2017- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]- Books
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Half a century of sanitary progress, and its results / by H. Franklin Parsons.
Parsons, H. Franklin (Henry Franklin), 1846-1913.Date: 1899- E-books
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Exhibiting religion : colonialism and spectacle at international expositions, 1851-1893 / John P. Burris.
Burris, John P.Date: 2001- Pictures
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Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1835.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.Date: Augt.1st. 1835Reference: 35497i