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Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927) : physician and physiologist - a short biography / by Jens H. Henriksen.
Henriksen, Jens H.Date: 2000- Pictures
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A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945.Date: 1898Reference: 14315i- Pictures
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A man surrounded by a feast while professing to have no appetite, his doctor observing how yellow he and his surroundings appear; suggesting the man's jaundiced view of life. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11200iPart of: G.T.B.s- Pictures
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A man very ill in bed, his doctor recommends sending for his wife; the patient sees this as extreme action. Wood engraving, 1873.
Date: 1873Reference: 13809i- Pictures
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A Lobelia plant (Lobelia urens): flowering and leafy stems. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24382i- Pictures
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Field scabious plant (Knautia arvensis): flowering and fruiting stem. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24386i- Pictures
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Guelder rose (Viburnum opulus): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24416i- Pictures
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A clover (Trifolium ochroleucum): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24411i- Pictures
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The British Museum: the Egyptian Room, with visitors. Engraving by Radclyffe after B. Sly, 1844.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 1844Reference: 38465i- Pictures
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A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.
Fraser, Alexander, 1786-1865.Date: Feby. 14 1837Reference: 28667i- Pictures
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A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1807?]Reference: 11208i- Pictures
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A doctor trying to convince an obese lady that her over-eating problems are psychologically based. Wood engraving by EH, 1894.
H., E., active 1894.Date: 1894Reference: 14303i- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: March 1829Reference: 12222i- Pictures
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An unwell woman bombarded by her five friends' different recommendations of a doctor. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1882.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1882Reference: 14281i- Pictures
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Two species of dock (Rumex species): flowering stems with leaf and rhizome. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24488i- Pictures
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Two species of knotweed (Polygonum species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24490i- Pictures
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Two species of goosefoot plant (Chenopodium species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24484i- Pictures
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Field garlic (Allium oleraceum): flowering stem and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24407i- Books
A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929 / by J.H. Harley Williams ; with a foreword by W.W. Jameson.
Williams, Harley, 1901-1974.Date: 1932- Pictures
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A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
Reference: 12116iPart of: Gallery of comicalities : Amateurs- Pictures
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An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 30 July 1801Reference: 16388i- Books
Complaints, controversies and grievances in medicine : historical and social science perspectives / edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynter.
Date: 2015- Books
Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / Deborah Lutz.
Lutz, DeborahDate: 2015- Pictures
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A plant (Romulea columnae): entire flowering and fruiting plants. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24387i- Pictures
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Black knapweed plant (Centaurea nigra): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24381i