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Household manual and recipe book
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.7893- Books
Is your body baby friendly? : "unexplained" infertility, miscarriage & IVF failure. Explained. / Alan E. Beer, M.D ; with Julia Kantecki and Jane Reed.
Beer, Alan E., 1937-2006Date: [2012]- Books
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The history of Sawney Beane and his family, robbers and murderers, who took up their abode in a cave near to the sea-side, where they lived twenty-five years without so much as once going to visit any City, Town, or Village. How they robbed above one thousand persons, and murdered and eat all whom they robbed. How at last they were happily discovered by a Pack of Blood-Hounds, and how Sawney Beane, his Wife, Eight Sons, Six Daughters, Eighteen Grand-Sons, and Fourteen Grand-Daughters, were all seized and executed, by being cast alive into three Fires, and there burnt to Death.
Date: [1800?]- Digital Images
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Chinese woodcut: Pathology of 'obstructive throat wind'
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Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leaves and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [wishes to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leave and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [who wish to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities.
Date: [1705?]- Pictures
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Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
Marais, Maurice, 1852-Date: 23 January 1897Reference: 16999i- Books
Cooked : a natural history of transformation / Michael Pollan.
Pollan, MichaelDate: 2013- Books
Normal and defective colour vision / edited by J.D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, and K. Knoblauch.
Date: 2003- Books
Slow death by rubber duck : the secret danger of everyday things / Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie with Sarah Dopp.
Smith, Rick, 1968-Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
How to grow up : a memoir / Michelle Tea.
Tea, MichelleDate: [2015]- Pictures
Episodes in the "Arabian nights". Colour heliogravures after oil paintings by A. Letchford, 1897.
Letchford, Albert, 1866-1905.Date: [1897?]Reference: 35096i- Books
Inflamed : deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice / Rupa Marya and Raj Patel.
Marya, Rupa, 1975-Date: 2021- Books
Drawing power : women's stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival : a comics anthology / edited by Diane Noomin ; introduction by Roxane Gay.
Date: 2019- Pictures
Twenty-three Flemish and Dutch proverbs. Engraving by J. van Doetecam, 1577.
Date: [1577?]Reference: 2138556i- Pictures
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A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [ca. May 1829]Reference: 37252i- Books
Brain maker : the power of gut microbes to heal and protect your brain -- for life / by David Perlmutter ; with Kristin Loberg.
Perlmutter, David, 1954-Date: 2015- Books
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
Roach, Mary.Date: [2003], ©2003- Pictures
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The animals look on as the angel expels Adam and Eve from paradise. Engraving by C.J. Visscher.
Masaccio, 1401-1428.Reference: 20369i- Digital Images
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Theory of diseases treated with Minor Bupleurum decoction
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The beheading of Shimazu-Seiji for the murder of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580193i- Pictures
The procession of Shimazu-Seiji through the streets of Yokohama to execution for murder, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580194i- Pictures
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Men, women and child slaves near Tete, Mozambique, are forced to walk through the fields fettered at the neck and wrists. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after J.B. Zwecker.
Date: [1865]Reference: 37944i- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH