Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++76.

Folder containing items of very large ephemera. Includes: posters for variety shows, featuring giants, siamese twins, fat people, etc. at St. James's Great Hall, Piccadilly, Theatre Royal (Dublin), Royal Amphitheatre (Liverpool?), including the Two-Headed Nightingale, Anna Swan, the Nova Svcotian Giantess, Capt. M.V. Bates, the great Kentucky Giant, Monsieur Bihan (the Belgian Giant), Young Hillard (the Mitcham Giant), Charles Freeman (the American Giant), the Double Man (half man, half woman, 1871), professional medical diplomas: 'Diploma approbationis in clinica', diploma to practice surgery ('patente di abilitazione in chirurgia', Firenze, 1806), Dr. Knolz's proposal for health care reforms in Austria (1848), Ost-Deutsche Post (7 October 1849 : university reforms), J. Lastdrager's Toxicologische Tafel (poisons chart, Leiden, 1830), first aid instruction to resuscitate people who are drowned, suffocated, bitten by rabid animals, poisoned and to revive stillborn infants (M. Portal, Paris), Ordonnantie (public health, P. Lion, Bruxelles, 1778), plague (Ludwig Georg of Swabia, 1738), Hospice Central de l'Innoculation de la Vaccine (Paris?), Mémoire adressé au Congrès de Rastatt concernant la petite vérole (J.C.G. Juncker, 8 May 1798), Junior Red Cross (promoting cleanliness, good diet, exercise, first aid, helping the blind and younger children).