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A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) defending the peoples of the world by spraying flies with a spray gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [193?-?]Reference: 676494i- Books
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches, élève de Boerhaave - et son importance pour la Russie / [David Willemse].
Willemse, David.Date: 1966- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i- Pictures
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La belle Espagnole, - ou - la doublure de Madame Tallien.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815Date: 25 February 1796Reference: 16855i- Pictures
Pierre-Louis Laideguive. Etching by Ch. Waltner after M.Q. de Latour.
La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788.Date: [187?-?]Reference: 2136642i- Pictures
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Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
Chevalier, Sabine Stuart de, active 18th century.Date: 1781Reference: 37282i- Pictures
An aged unpleasant apothecary. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.Date: 1 September 1774Reference: 16091i- Pictures
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A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.
Reference: 22994i- Books
Leerer Raum in Minervas Haus : experimentelle Naturlehre an der Universität Leiden, 1675 - 1715 / Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.
Wiesenfeldt, Gerhard.Date: 2002- Pictures
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A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: May 23. 1799Reference: 35692i- Pictures
A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
Lafrensen, Niklas, 1737-1807.Date: [1786]Reference: 15864i- Pictures
An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11822i- Pictures
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A young physician taking the pulse of a woman with whom he is flirting, a young man passing by raises his hat. Colour stipple engraving by J. Parker, 1783, after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Date: [1783]Reference: 21778i- Books
Commercial visions : science, trade, and visual culture in the Dutch Golden Age / Dániel Margócsy.
Margócsy, DánielDate: [2014]- Pictures
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A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 16957i- Pictures
Transplanting of teeth.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1787Reference: 16589i- Pictures
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An injured patient, John Hill, in bed surrounded by a group of physicians. Etching by Clyster-Pipe after Bolus M.D., 1752.
Bolus, M.D., active 1752.Date: [29 May 1752]Reference: 11404i- Pictures
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A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 15 June 1793Reference: 16968i- Pictures
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Transplanting of teeth.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1787Reference: 16595i- Pictures
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Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
S. J.Date: 1791Reference: 15873i- Pictures
A pyramidal bas relief monument to Lady Cecilia Johnston, seated on a latrine-like stool; expressing her position in fashionable society as an elderly coquette. Etching by James Gillray, 1791.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 19 September 1791Reference: 12088i- Pictures
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William Pitt the younger consults the doctor John Bull on his failing health. Coloured aquatint, 1798.
Date: 1798Reference: 12186i- Books
De snijkunst verbeeld : Delftse anatomische lessen nader belicht : beschrijving van de vier Delftse anatomische lessen en een overzicht van de gezondheidszorg in Delft en haar beoefenaren in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw / redactie: Hans Houtzager, Michiel Jonker ; tekstbijdragen, Hans Houtzager [and three others].
Date: [2002]- Pictures
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A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 546400i- Pictures
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In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Aquatint by C. Rosenberg, 1799, after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: May 1 1799Reference: 38145iPart of: Hudibras