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A girl (Akae) with a tumour over her right eye. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 183-.
Lam, Qua.Date: [183?-?]Reference: 679510i- Videos
The brain: a secret history. Part 3, Broken brains.
Date: 2010- Pictures
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A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.Date: 1856Reference: 17876i- Pictures
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Newly emerging infectious diseases: patients in hospital. Relief print by Eric Avery, 2000.
Avery, Eric, 1948-Date: 2000Reference: 556038i- Pictures
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Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.Date: 1730-1739Reference: 37983i- Pictures
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An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
Date: [1926]Reference: 26665i- Books
Between the dying the dead : Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide machine, and the battle to legalise euthanasia / Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie.
Nicol, Neal.Date: 2006- Books
Hemlock's cup : the struggle for death with dignity / Donald W. Cox.
Cox, Donald W. (Donald William), 1921-1998.Date: 1993- Books
Luis Kutner and the development of the advance directive (living will) / Udo Benzenhöfer, Gisela Hack-Molitor.
Benzenhöfer, Udo.Date: 2009- Books
Beyond price : essays on birth and death / J. David Velleman.
Velleman, James DavidDate: [2015]- Books
The roots of bioethics : health, progress, technology, death / Daniel Callahan.
Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019Date: [2012], ©2012- Pictures
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The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
Date: [1926]Reference: 26646i- Books
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Report of law committee under remit of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Edinburgh anent the Board's right to poorhouse grounds, and to other grants and mortifications for the use of the poor.
Date: 1861- Pictures
The first plague in Egypt, rivers turned to blood. Coloured etching.
Date: [1775/1779]Reference: 6053iPart of: Collection des prospects- Books
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Memoirs of the conduct of Her late Majesty and her last ministry, relating to the separate peace with France. By the Right Hononrable [sic] the Countess of -
Countess of -.Date: 1715- Books
Die frühmittelalterlichen lateinischen Monatskalendarien : Text - Übersetzung - Kommentar / von Frank-Dieter Groenke.
Groenke, Frank-Dieter, 1958-Date: 1986- Books
Emanzipation und Eugenik : die Briefe der Fauenrechtlerin, Rassenhygienikerin und Genetikerin Agnes Bluhm an den Studienfreund Alfred Ploetz aus den Jahren 1901 - 1938 / von Johanna Bleker und Svenja Ludwig, mit einer biographischen Einführung von Johanna Bleker.
Bluhm, Agnes, 1862-1943.Date: 2007- Books
Forschungen zur Medizin im Nationalsozialismus : Vorgeschichte - Verbrechen - Nachwirkungen / herausgegeben von Alfred Flessner, Uta George, Ingo Harms und Rolf Keller.
Date: [2014]- Books
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A letter to the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, on the effects of solitary confinement, on the health of soldiers, in warm climates / by John Grant Malcolmson.
Date: 1837- Pictures
An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.Date: [between 1550 and 1559]Reference: 26249i- Books
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Report on the condition of the poorer classes of Edinburgh and of their dwellings, neighbourhoods, and families : prepared by order of a public meeting of the inhabitants, held in the Council Chamber, under the presidency of The Right Honourable the Lord Provost, on the 15th April 1867, and adopted and ordered to be published, at a meeting held on the 28th of February 1868.
Date: 1868- Books
In search of gentle death : a brief history of the NuTech Group / Richard N. Côté.
Côté, Richard N.Date: 2008- Books
Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day / Peter Ackroyd.
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-Date: 2017- Books
Time : from micro-seconds to millennia - the search for the right time / Alexander Waugh.
Waugh, Alexander.Date: 1999- Pictures
Aortic aneurysm in a 63-year old man with oedema, colick and ecchymiosis in left loin: section of abdominal aorta, just above level of renal arteries, showing two to three centimetres of laminated clot. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1952.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1952Reference: 34446iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.