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A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, John.Date: 28 January 1804Reference: 12068i- Books
A sewer is the best medicine : through plague, wars, famine and flood : Sir Robert Rawlinson and the nineteenth century public health revolution / J. Andrew Charles.
Charles, J. AndrewDate: 2022- Pictures
A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
Holden, Albert William, 1848-1932.Date: [1900?]Reference: 45152i- Books
George Cruikshank's The Worship of Bacchus in focus / Robert Upstone, with a technical essay by Christopher Holden.
Upstone, Robert.Date: 2001- Books
Medicine in modern Britain 1780-1950 / Deborah Brunton.
Brunton, DeborahDate: 2019- Books
Child insanity in England, 1845-1907 / Steven J. Taylor.
Taylor, Steven J. (Of the University of Leicester)Date: [2017]- Books
The fitness of the nation - physical and health education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : proceedings of the 1982 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain / edited by Nicholas Parry, David McNair.
History of Education Society (Great Britain). Conference (1982)Date: 1983- Pictures
Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
Reference: 12210i- Books
Victoria's madmen : revolution and alienation / Clive Bloom.
Bloom, Clive.Date: 2013- Pictures
A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 12244i- Books
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Bedford Level. N.B. the report on the petition is intended to be made on Wednesday the 19th of March, if the House sits on that day, - if not, then the first day the House does sit.
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1720?]- Pictures
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A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 6 March 1831Reference: 12081i- Pictures
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A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.
Date: 1913Reference: 23451i- Pictures
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An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Reference: 11903iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Pictures
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A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1809?]Reference: 15968i- Books
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Irish state-lottery, 1799. Begins Drawing July 23. Scheme. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 3 of -10,000 is -30,000 3 - 5,000 - 15,000 4 - 2,000 - 8,000 5 - 1,000 - 5,000 10 - 500 - 5,000 30 - 100 - 3,000 60 - 50 - 3,000 8,000 - 10 - 80,000 8,115 Prizes 149,000 First-Drawn Ticket - - 500 First-Drawn Ticket last Morning - 500 21,885 Blanks 30,000 Tickets -150,000 Part of the Capital Prizes will be determined as follows: First-Drawn Ticket 19th Day - - -2,000 First-Drawn Ticket 21st Day - - 5,000 First-Drawn Ticket 23d Day - - 10,000 Tickets and Shares Are selling in Variety at the Old State Lottery Offices of T. Bish, Stock Broker, No. 4, Cornhill, London; and at the house of James Thomson, Bookseller, Manchester. Country Correspondents, by remitting Bank Notes, Post-Office Orders, or Cash, may have Tickets and Shares sent them, and their Orders complied with, the same as if present. Tickets and Shares Registered, to send the earliest Intelligence of their Fate to any Part of the World. Letters, if Post-Paid, duly answered.
Bish, Thomas, 1779-Date: 1799]- Pictures
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A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
Date: 18 April 1800Reference: 11639i- Books
George III's illnesses and his doctors : a study in early psychiatry / Michael Ramscar.
Ramscar, MichaelDate: 2023- Pictures
A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1863Reference: 13800i- Pictures
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Dr Fossil, an evolutionist, coming up against an interested couple's misguided views, at an anthropological society meeting. Wood engraving by W. Mackay, 1873.
Mackay, Wallis.Date: 4 January 1873Reference: 13806i- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin on his knees begging forgiveness from his loved one. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12141i- Pictures
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Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
Burr, Alexander Hohenlohe, 1835-1899.Date: 4 April 1891Reference: 29212i- Pictures
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Marsh ludwigia plant (Ludwigia palustris): flowering stem with roots. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24478i- Pictures
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A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11201iPart of: G.T.B.s