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Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / Deborah Lutz.
Lutz, DeborahDate: 2015- Pictures
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A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
Reference: 12116iPart of: Gallery of comicalities : Amateurs- Books
Complaints, controversies and grievances in medicine : historical and social science perspectives / edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynter.
Date: 2015- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: March 1829Reference: 12222i- Pictures
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An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 30 July 1801Reference: 16388i- Pictures
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A plant (Romulea columnae): entire flowering and fruiting plants. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24387i- Pictures
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Black knapweed plant (Centaurea nigra): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24381i- Pictures
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A red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) and white dead-nettle (Lamium album). Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1877-1900]Reference: 24500i- Pictures
A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
Reference: 11901i- Pictures
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A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1865.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1865Reference: 13803i- Pictures
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A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1880Reference: 13824i- Pictures
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A man barking and drinking port, following a doctor's orders. Coloured aquatint by I. Wilson after M. Egerton, 182-..
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1825?]Reference: 11877i- Pictures
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Navelwort plant (Umbilicus rupestris): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24393i- Pictures
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Wild or wood garlic (Allium ursinum): flower and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24396i- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Books
The health of adult Britain, 1841-1994 / editors John Charlton, Mike Murphy.
Date: [1997]- Pictures
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A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 11 February 1865Reference: 13802i- Pictures
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A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
Evans, Treyer Meredith, 1889-1958.Date: 1929Reference: 15489i- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin at a party with some unsavoury looking company. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12127i- Books
From lesion to metaphor : chronic pain without lesion in British, French and German medical writings: 1800-1914 / Andrew David Hodgkiss.
Hodgkiss, Andrew.Date: 1996- Pictures
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Two species of marsh samphire plant (Salicornia species): leafy stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24486i- Pictures
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A stonecrop (Sedum villosum): entire flowering plant. Coloured lithograph, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24415i- Pictures
A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1796Reference: 17465i- Pictures
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Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus): flowering stem and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24410i- Pictures
William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself