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The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]- Archives and manuscripts
Ellis, Surgeon-Captain Frank Pollard
Ellis, Surgeon-Captain Frank Pollard, OBE, MD, FRCP, OStJ, RN (1913-1989) Naval SurgeonDate: c. 1940s-1980sReference: GC/174- Pictures
"A case of T.B.": John Smith is in danger of losing promotion owing to newly diagnosed tuberculosis. Colour lithographs.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]Reference: 2016664i- Books
Traces / Beth Hopkins.
Hopkins, BethDate: 2017- 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- Books
George Catlin : American Indian portraits / Stephanie Pratt & Joan Carpenter Troccoli.
Catlin, George, 1796-1872.Date: 2013- Pictures
An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11822i- Pictures
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Queen Victoria in mourning for Albert, her subjects outraged at her neglect of duties. Wood engraving, c. 1861.
Reference: 13441i- Pictures
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A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: May 23. 1799Reference: 35692i- 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
King George III steps forward to embrace the dishevelled Prince of Wales who throws himself into his father's arms, while the Queen stands behind in a doorway with outstretched arms. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585526i- Pictures
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King George IV as a lady's maid wearing an apron over her dress. Etching by William Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: Oct.10th 1829Reference: 29683i- Pictures
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A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
Date: May 29th 1805Reference: 33038i- 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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The gouty George IV using tongs to pass his discarded wig to Wellington; representing the Duke's appointment to office as First Lord of the Treasury. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1828Reference: 12247i- Pictures
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A gouty patient having his pulse taken by a doctor; representing George IV's opposition to Catholic emancipation, and Wellington's support of it. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1829.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1828.Date: April 1829Reference: 12223i- Pictures
A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 12244i- Pictures
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A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, John.Date: 28 January 1804Reference: 12068i- Pictures
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A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11201iPart of: G.T.B.s- Pictures
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King George III analysing the residue from a large glass retort containing a small figure; representing the English view of Napoleon. Coloured aquatint by T. West, 1803.
West, Temple, approximately 1740-1783.Date: July 1803Reference: 12196i- Pictures
Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
Reference: 12210i- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library
Date: 1874-c.1984Reference: WA/HMM- Pictures
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A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
Date: 18 April 1800Reference: 11639i- Pictures
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A seated man in front of a chamber pot which is emitting bubbles, a group of people stand behind him; representing Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle's involvement with Mrs. Clarke. Coloured etching, 1809.
Date: 24 April 1809Reference: 12201i