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A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 35974i- Pictures
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A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 46343i- Ephemera
A touch of class and enchantment : in call escort by private appointment : tantric massage & tease, Japanese hot towel treatments : honey blonde, 33, slim hour-glass figure, educated & cultured : la courtisane avec un coeur, absolutely genuine photo, 2 minutes Bloomsbury.
Date: [2001]- Pictures
A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
James, Abraham., active 1800-1802.Date: 1 October 1800Reference: 18134i- Books
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A case of hour-glass stomach the result of an ulcer on the lesser curvature which produced a septum of the anterior wall of the stomach : anterior gastrogastrostomy, recovery, cure : read at the Pan-American Medical Congress, Panama, January, 1905 / by W.W. Keen.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: 1905- Pictures
A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.
Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546.Date: [1542?]Reference: 23028i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his jaw in the background. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1777]Reference: 16474i- Pictures
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A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1766Reference: 21791i- Pictures
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A physician, in his surgery and workshop, examining a urine flask and referring to a book. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 21685i- Pictures
A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book Engraving by J.B. Tardieu after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 20508i- Pictures
A physician looking at a a urine flask in his workshop, an elderly woman patient presents urine in a chamberpot for examintion, two assistants (?) sit around the fire. Line engraving by J. Folkema, 1763, after C. Netscher, 1659.
Netscher, Caspar, 1635 or 1636-1684.Date: [1763?]Reference: 22188i- Books
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The gentleman's hour glass, or an introduction to chronology: being a plain and compendious analysis of time, and its divisions ; Comprehending the whole Science, after a new, and curious Method; containing a brief Account of the Flux of Time; the Value of Lives, and Explanation of Stiles, Epochs, Aera's, Periods, Revolutions, &c. For the use of schools and universities. By James Eyre Weeks.
Weeks, James Eyre.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Pictures
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An excited physician examining a urine specimen and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis, two assistants are mixing concoctions in the background. Mezzotint by J.B. Enzensberger after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 21786i- Books
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A book of rarities: or, Cabinet of curiosities unlock'd, By the key of experience. Containing near an hundred useful and diverting amusements, with a new mthod of making artificial gardens; Italian shades; moving pictures; use of optick insruments; to make ornaments in immitation of China; to make a new invented machine, by which a common hour-glass shows the hour of the day; to make quills hard as steel; invisible writing; to make a Hortus Siccus; to keep kidney beans green all the year; to take the true picture of any herb a new treatise on making English wines, and many other rarities never before made publick, with curious copper print of the author, Tho. Eldridge, F.C.N.
Eldridge, Tho. (Thomas).Date: 1743- Digital Images
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Spectacle case, ivory, circa 1500
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[Fig-Hyg]
Date: mid 20th centuryReference: WA/HMM/CM/Inv/B.6Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Pictures
An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 45085i- Pictures
A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
Reference: 10765iPart of: Hygeian illustration- Pictures
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Man de Wirth in drag. Photographic postcard, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909]Reference: 2064343iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Two mercenary soldiers approach a seated prostitute while Death sits in a tree, pointing to an hourglass. Etching after Urs Graf, 1524.
Graf, Urs, approximately 1485-approximately 1527.Date: 1524Reference: 33730i- Videos
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Management of a normal birth in a continental clinic. Part 2, Stage of dilation.
Date: 1926- Books
Speaking about science : a manual for creating clear presentations / Scott Morgan, Barrett Whitener.
Morgan, Scott, 1961-Date: 2006- Pictures
The wheel of Fortune, showing the rise and fall of European powers. Etching and letterpress, ca. 1689.
Date: [1689?]Reference: 2136945i- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd