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The ladies best companion; or, A Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex. Containing the whole arts of Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Potting, Pickling, Preserving, Candying, Collaring, Brewing, &c. With plain Instructions for making English Wines, from Fruits, Flowers, &c. To which is added The art of preserving Beauty. Containing the best and easiest Methods of preparing and making Washes, Essences, and Perfumes, &c. for the Hands, Neck, Face and Hair, in such a Manner as in a great Measure to delay the Ravages of Time on the Features of the Fair Sex. Likewise Directions for sweetening the Breath, curing the Tooth-Ache, preserving the Teeth and Gums, &c. With many other Articles equally useful to the Fair Sex in general To which are added Every Lady her own and Family's Physician. Consisting of approved physical Receipts for most Disorders that grown People and young Children are subject to. Also the Family Instructor. Containing Directions for cleaning Silks, Lace and Furniture, taking out Spots from Linen and Cloaths, &c. &c. And great Variety of other Articles too numerous to be inserted in a Title Page.
Chambers, Amelia.Date: [1775?]- Pictures
A physician taking the pulse of a young woman, to the side an elderly woman is removing a urine flask out of basket in preparation of examination. Watercolour by A. Mulmans(?).
Mulmans, A.Reference: 22196i- Pictures
Boer War: a ward in General Hospital no. 10, with soldiers recuperating. Photograph, 1901.
Underwood & Underwood.Date: [1901]Reference: 2016074i- Pictures
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A man is held down by four men in a bedchamber while a man castrates him with a knife. Etching.
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A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 30 September 1756Reference: 26782i- Pictures
A hypochondriac imagining himself being prepared for burial. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1833.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Reference: 855iPart of: G. De S.- Books
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A trip through the town. Containing observations on the humours and manners of the age. Reflections on London in general. The Art of walking in St. James's Park. Beaus and Blockheads; together with Coffee-House Politicians, exposed. A Dissertation on the Craft of the Town-Beggars, and the monstrous Pride and Insolencies of Women-Servants. The Humours of Newgate and Tyburn on the Day of Execution. The Horse-Guards, prov'd to be better Subjects, though worse Soldiers than the Foot-Guards. A remarkable Character of Sir Timothy Testy, Knight. The real Causes of the Debaucheries practis'd upon the Fair Sex; shewing the true Reasons why such infinite Numbers of fine young Creatures are daily forc'd into the Service of the Publick. People of Fashion required to keep their young Daughters out of their Kitchens. A merry Water-Ramble from Westminster to Wapping; the Miseries of that Part of the Town described; with some Account of a Tumult near King Edward's Stairs, occasioned by a Sea Lieutenant's Lady unfortunately discharging a Chamber-Pot from a Two-Pair of Stairs Window on a decay'd Baronet's Wife. With many other diverting particulars.
Date: 1735- Pictures
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An old man sits with tankard and pipe at a tavern table, three men converse behind him. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
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A sick old man with the woes of old age. Engraving by B. Lépicié, 1745, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: [1745]Reference: 546746i- Pictures
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An old woman soothes a wound on Don Quixote's back. Engraving by William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38207iPart of: Don Quixote- Pictures
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An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
Mieris, Frans van, 1635-1681.Date: 1819Reference: 21684i- Pictures
A physician looking at a a urine flask in his workshop, an elderly woman patient presents urine in a chamberpot for examintion, two assistants (?) sit around the fire. Line engraving by J. Folkema, 1763, after C. Netscher, 1659.
Netscher, Caspar, 1635 or 1636-1684.Date: [1763?]Reference: 22188i- Pictures
A man sits by a barrel-table smoking his pipe, behind others play cards and a woman enters the room. Engraving by P. Chenu after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 24720i- Pictures
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Four men sit indoors smoking round a barrel-table, others drink by the fireplace. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 24835i- Pictures
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A man in bedclothes prising insects (?) off his bed-curtains with a fork into a saucepan. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: [1826?]Reference: 726202iPart of: Busby's humorous etchings.- Pictures
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A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 21756i- Pictures
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An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
Mieris, Frans van, 1635-1681.Date: 1667-1819Reference: 21730i- Pictures
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A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1731Reference: 24847i- Pictures
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A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1731Reference: 26452i- Pictures
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A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1731Reference: 26453i- Pictures
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A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 April 1798Reference: 26454i- Pictures
A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 21759i- Pictures
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Two men play cards at a table as others watch, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1771, after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: Publish'd 23 Dec.r 1771Reference: 24736i- Ephemera
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Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : what it has done : what it will do : [the broken jug] / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
Foster, Milburn & Co.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Ephemera
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Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : what it has done : what it will do : [the broken jug] / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
Foster, Milburn & Co.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]