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What is a doctor? Essays on medicine and human natural history / [Alex Comfort].
Comfort, Alex, 1920-2000.Date: 1981- Books
The science of human perfection : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.
Comfort, Nathaniel C.Date: [2012], ©2012- Pictures
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A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: October 1807Reference: 11876iPart of: Miseries of human life- Books
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Business and diversion inoffensive to God, and necessary for the comfort and support of human society. A discourse utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls, in the fishing-season. 1739. [Eight lines from Isaak Walton]
Seccombe, Joseph, 1706-1760.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
Being human : readings from the President's Council on Bioethics.
Date: [2003]- Books
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Grace triumphant. A sacred poem, in nine dialogues; wherein the utmost power of nature, reason, virtue, and the liberty of the human will, to administer comfort to the awakened sinner, are impartially weighed and considered. By John Fellows.
Fellows, John, -1785.Date: [1773]- Books
The story of the human body : evolution, health and disease / Daniel Lieberman.
Lieberman, Daniel E., 1964-Date: 2013- Books
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Grace triumphant. A sacred poem, in nine dialogues; wherein the utmost power of nature, reason, virtue, and the liberty of the human will, to administer comfort to the awakened sinner, are impartially weighed and considered. By Mr. John Fellows, Author of the History of the Bible, in Verse.
Fellows, John, -1785.Date: [1778?]- Pictures
Two boys, one with a cigarette, in a box-cart advertising Comfort soap. Reproduction of a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1924.
Stampa, G. L. (George Loraine), 1875-1951.Date: [1924]Reference: 11956i- Books
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An historical account of inventions and discoveries in those arts and sciences, which are of utility or ornament to man. Lend assistance to human comfort, a polish to life, and render the civilized state, beyond comparison, preferable to a state of nature / traced from their origin; with every subsequent improvement, by J.F. Lake Williams.
Williams, J. F. Lake (J. Frederick Lake)Date: 1820- Audio
The digital human. Abandon 3/6.
Date: 2014- Pictures
A man enjoying a hot foot-bath and a bowl of food. Reproduction of a drawing by Crombie, 1924.
Crombie, active 1924.Date: [1924?]Reference: 11953i- Pictures
A contented person relaxing on a desert island. Reproduction of a drawing by Fougasse, 1924.
Fougasse.Date: [1924?]Reference: 11954i- Pictures
A woman sitting in an armchair in front of the fire, reading the newspaper, accompanied by a dog and a cat. Reproduction of a drawing by A. Watts, 1924.
Watts, Arthur, 1883-1935.Date: 1924Reference: 11958i- Pictures
A contented man enjoying a cigarette, a soft couch and a drink. Reproduction of a drawing by H.M. Bateman, 1924.
Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970.Date: 1924Reference: 11951i- Books
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Grace triumphant. A sacred poem, in nine dialogues, wherein the utmost power of nature, reason, virtue, and the liberty of the human will, to administer comfort to the awakened sinner, are impartially weighed and considered; and The Whole submitted to the serious and candid Perusal of the Reverend Dr. Nowel of Oxford: the Reverend Dr. Adams of Shrewsbury: and the Author of Pietas Oxoniensis. By Philanthropos.
Fellows, John, -1785.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Pictures
A painter painting while enjoying a hot bath. Reproduction of a drawing by Bert Thomas, 1924.
Thomas, Bert, 1883-1966.Date: [1924]Reference: 11957i- Pictures
A patient expressing relief at the extraction of a bad tooth. Reproduction of a drawing by George Belcher, 1924.
Belcher, George Frederick Arthur, 1875-1947.Date: [1924?]Reference: 11952i- Pictures
A farmer enjoying a sleep in a haystack shaped like a cradle. Reproduction of a drawing by Alfred Leete, 1924.
Leete, Alfred.Date: [1924]Reference: 11955i- Books
Du luxe au confort / J.-P. Goubert [and others] ; préface de Michel Marié.
Date: 1988- Pictures
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A dancing, juggling man who brings relief to sick people. Engraving.
Reference: 18199i- Pictures
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A sick patient surrounded by family and visited by a priest. Stipple engraving by Middlemist after T. Stothard.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Reference: 17769i- Books
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Life and how to make the most of it : an address at St. James's Hall / by Philip Foster.
Foster, Philip.Date: 1880- Books
Seasonal forecasts, climatic change, and human health : health and climate / Madeleine C. Thomson, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Martin Beniston, editors.
Date: 2008- Pictures
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Two women comforting a boy while a monk sits beside in despair. Wood engraving after Jessie MacGregor, 1872.
MacGregor, Jessie, -1919.Date: 1872Reference: 17558i