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Nothing will come of nothing : science & education in Antwerp since 1500 / Helma de Smedt (ed.)
Date: [2019]- Books
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The secret history of Betty Ireland. Containing an interesting account of her unfortunate marriage at the age of fourteen. - Her Absconding from her Husband, and turning Prostitute. - Her Incest with her own Son. - Her being Carted for a Bawd. - Her Revenge on one of the Justices. - Her Intrigues with a Jew, whom she caused to be arrested for £300. - Her Marriage to Three Brothers within Seven Days, without the Knowledge of each other- Her being robbed on Epping Forest. - Her intriguing with Smutty Will, an Irishman, a well known Sharper, with an Account of his Death in Newgate. - Her associating with Shoplifters, and being taken in the Fact; and the Stratagem she used to escape a Prosecution; together with many other interesting Anecdotes, &c. &c. well worth the perusal of the Curious.
Date: [1800?]- Pictures
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Scull of a public woman, remarkable for the depravity of her morals, her great propensity to steal and cruellty.
Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839Date: [1835?]Reference: 28077i- Books
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The country seat; or, summer evenings entertainments. Translated from the French. In two volumes. Volume the First. Containing, The History of Don Pedro D'Aguilar. Innocence Preserved. Arnold and Claramond. Remarkable Account of three Prostitutes. Melchu-Kina. The Self - Rival, and Constant Love.
Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Videos
Medicine through time.
Date: 1998- Videos
In two minds.
Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: c.1860-c.1995Reference: WF- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1930-1931Reference: WF/M/GB/30/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
The neurological emergence of epilepsy : the national hospital for the paralysed and epileptic (1870-1895) / Vasia Lekka.
Lekka, Vasia, 1981-Date: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Leach-Leslie
Date: 1682-1912Reference: MS.8891- Pictures
Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Line engraving by B. Audran, the elder, after E. Le Sueur.
Le Sueur, Eustache, 1616-1655.Reference: 21233i- Videos
Dr. Roy Porter.
Date: 1987- Books
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How modern science came into the world : four civilizations, one 17th-century breakthrough / H. Floris Cohen.
Cohen, H. FlorisDate: [2010], ©2010- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: M
Date: 1820-1951Reference: MS.8878- Books
The fires of lust : sex in the Middle Ages / Katherine Harvey.
Harvey, KatherineDate: 2021- Books
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The court oracle: a new miscellany. In which are contained, amongst many other curious Things, the following, viz. I. The secret history of that most celebrated prude Skirrissa; wherein the various Stratagems used by Sir Sidrophel with her Father, and their Intrigues to this Time, are amply set forth. Cum multis aliis. II. The Sequel of Tit for Tat. In a Dialogue between a Country Blackbird and a C- Goldfinch. III. The Wife's Revenge; or the impertinent Cuckold; who on Account of his ill Usage became a Prostitute: With their Proceedings at Law, and Seperation by mutual Consent. IV. The Secret History of Montizeuta: Containing an Account of her Amours; particularly with Crackezuma, a grand Scribe: The Discovery of her indecent Behaviour with him; her comical Adventure with a Gentleman at a Country Village, who enjoy'd her by a Stratagem, when she thought to pass undiscover'd; her extravagant Gestures at the Sight of the Corpse of her Paramour, the Scribe, who died of a loathsome Distemper; and her dressing herself in a Widow's Apparel on Account of his Death. V. An Officer and no Soldier. A Poem. Inscribed to the D-s of B-n and A - le. VI. Verses most humbly inscribed to the Right Hon, the Earl of Scarborough, on his resigning his Post of Master of the Horse to his Majesty. Vii. The History of a Knight and no Gentleman. Inscrib'd to Sir R- F-. Viii. A dialogue between two Jews, concerning the bill depending in Parliament for preventing stockjobbing. To which is added, The fair Jewess triumphant: OR Jacob's Folly in Attempting to Wrestie with an Angel.
Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Pictures
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Erasistratus, a physician, realising that the illness of Antiochus (son of Seleucus I) is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises when ever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy after A. Desenne after G. de Lairesse.
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.Reference: 21248i- Pictures
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Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
Reference: 16335i- Books
Scattered limbs : a medical dreambook / by Iain Bamforth.
Bamforth, IainDate: 2020- Books
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A catalogue of a select and valuable collection of ancient and modern books, in various languages. Containing, A considerable Number of very rare and curious Articles in the finest Condition. Also, An extensive Assortment of the best Modern Books in the most elegant Bindings. Including the Libraries of the late J. Mainwaring, M. D. an eminent Civilian, and a celebrated Collector, deceased. Among others equally curious are, Caxton's Game of Chesse. Caxton's Chaucer. Caxton's Cato. Caxton's Alain Chartier. Caxton's Catharine of Senes. Caxton's Bull of Pope Innocent for the Marriage of Henry Vii. and Elizabeth of York. several by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Maclinia, and other early Printers. Books printed on Vellum. Books printed at Strawberry-Hill. Sir William Dugdain's Works. Most of the scarce English Topographical Histories. Early English Poetry. Chronicles, by Froissart, Higden, Hollinshed, Hall, Grafton, Fabian, &c. Romans de Chevalerie de la Table ronde Illuminated Missals and Mss. Mss. on English History and Antiquities. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Morocco. Hill's Vegetable System, coloured, 26 vol. Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured. Knorr's Shells, coloured. Martyn's Shells, painted. Lister's Shells, orig. edit. large paper. Hamilton's Sicilies, coloured, 3 vol. - Etruscan Vases, coloured, 4 vol. Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vol. Voyages Pittoresques de la Grece, de Naples, de France, de Sicile, de Suisse, &c. 18 vol. Houbraken's Heads, large paper. Perrault Hommes Illustres, lar. pap. Vandyke's Heads. Claude's Drawings, Proofe. Pilastres of the Vatican, coloured. Cielings of the Vatican, coloured. Oeuvres de Buffon, 33 vol. complets. - de Voltaire, 30 vol. - de Rousseau, 30 vol. Tasso, 3 vol: 4 to. par Didot. Which will begin to be sold, for Ready Money, at the Prices fixed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of each Book, in May 1787, at Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall. - The full Value given for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had of Mr. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale; also at Edwards's, Halifax.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1787]- Books
Escaping wars and waves : encounters with Syrian refugees / drawn & recorded by Olivier Kugler.
Kugler, OlivierDate: 2018- Videos
The joy of sex education.
Date: 2009- Videos
Inside Broadmoor.
Date: 2013- Books
Museum storage and meaning : tales from the crypt / edited by Mirjam Brusius and Kavita Singh.
Date: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Commonplace book belonging to Ross
Date: c.1850-c.1870Reference: MS.7857Part of: Ross, James Tyrrell Carter, F.R.C.S. D.I.G. S.S.C Cantab, C.I.E. (1823-1897), Surgeon and medical officer, British Army in India, Indian Medical Service