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Three days before the patient is brought to Bethlem to be viewed, you are to leave in writing at the Clerk's Office in Bridwell Hospital, Fleet-street - the names of two housekeepers within the bills of mortality, with the particular places of theri abode, and in what parish, and what business they follow - to be security for the patient upon admittance.
Bridewell Royal HospitalDate: 1775?]- Books
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Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals. January 16, 1792. Your worship is desired to meet at a court at Bridewell Hospital, on Thursday the 2d of February next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, about business concerning the said hospitals. - And particularly to elect a physician, in the room of Dr. John Monro, deceased. ...
Bridewell Royal HospitalDate: 1792]- Books
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Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals. January 2, 1792. Your worship is desired to meet at a court at Bridewell Hospital, on Tuesday the 10th day of January instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, about business concerning the said hospitals. - And particularly to declare the vacancy of a physician, on th death of Doctor John Monro. ...
Bridewell Royal HospitalDate: 1792]- Books
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Deux essays d'arithmetique politique, touchant les villes et hospitaux de Londres et Paris. Dedie's au Roy, par le chevalier Petty, de la Société Royale.
Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687Date: 1686- Books
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Folly predominant; or, The town taken in. With the palpable deception, and frothy orations, of four public orators, three of which suddenly springing up like mushrooms, must as soon decay: to which is added, a dissertation upon the impossibility of curing lunatics in Bethlem, except with those that would amend of themselves under proper Government in any other Place: And why more Cures are not performed in other Hospitals. - Also, (in Compliment to the Ladies) another upon the Felicity of Matrimony. - Likewise, an humourous and diverting Raree-Show. With the four orators effigies, in folio, sketched from the life, annexed to it. By Peter Billings, M.D. And Sole Professor of the Cure of Lunatics, experimentally, by a new and gentle Method, and in the highest Degree of Madness, proceeding from Pride or Love; Hypocondriacs, or Hysterics, now in London, or in any other Part of the World; who may be heard of at Mr. Mark Noble's, Peruke-Maker, next Door to Mr. John Taylor's, Oculist, in Hatton-Garden.
Billings, Peter.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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Augusta triumphans: or, the way to make London the most flourishing city in the universe. First, by establishing an university where Gentlemen may have Academical Education under the Eye of their Friends. II. By an Hospital for Foundlings. III. By forming an Academy of Sciences at Christ's-Hospital. IV. By suppressing pretended Mad-Houses, where many of the fair Sex are unjustly confin'd, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c. and many Widows are lock'd up for the Sake of their Jointure. V. To save our Youth from Destruction, by clearing the Streets of impudent Strumpets. Suppressing Gaming - Tables, and Sunday Debauches. VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render them useful by preventing the immoderate Use of Geneva: With a frank Explosion of many other common Abuses, and incontestable Rules for Amendment. Concluding with an effectual method to prevent street robberies; and a letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the orphan's tax. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1729]- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine and curious library; Of the late Reverend Mr. John Jackson, Master of Wigston's-Hospital in Leicester: consisting Of several Elegant, very Scarce, and Valuable Books, In Critical Literature, History, Divinity, &c. In Different Languages; Amongst which, are some of the Oldest and Extreme Scarce Editions of the Classicks: Also many Beautiful Copies of Books, Printed by Aldus Elzevir, Stephens, Colinaeus, and others, the best and most eminent Printers. Which will be Sold, by Order of the Executors, For Ready Money only. Commissions taken in from the Time of Delivering the Catalogues till the end of July, and will be executed in the Order they come to Hand: By John Gregory, Bookseller in Leicester. Catalogues to be had at the place of Sale, of Mr. Field, Bookseller in Paternoster-Row, and Mr. Blythe, Bookseller in Cornhill London. - The Books may be seen during the Month of June.
Gregory, John, -1789.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
Hinxman, J., -1762.Date: 1759]- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0010149 - C0012901
Date: c.2000-c.2002Reference: WT/B/11/1/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854