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Bdud rtsi sman gyi sgrub thabs skor : Texts focussing upon the rites for the preparation of medicinal pellets from the Yi dam dgoṅs ʼdus cycle of revelations of Stag - śam Nus -ldan - rdo - rje.
Date: 1985- Books
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Medicinal experiments: or, a collection of choice and safe remedies : for the most part simple, and easily prepar'd: very useful in families, and fitted for the service of country-people. / by the Honourable R. Boyle, Esq.; late Fellow of the Royal Society. In three parts. Containing above five hundred choice receipts.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: 1712- Books
Les pratiques de la médecine populaire : recitis-vecus - memoirs / René Henry.
Henry, René, 1958-Date: [2012]- Books
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A thousand notable things, on various subjects. Disclosed from the secrets of nature and art, practicable, profitable, and of great advantage, Set down from long and curious Study and Experience for the greater Part; and the rest taken from the most judicious and celebrated Authors of the Antients and Moderns. - Being a Rich Cabinet of Select Curiosities and Rarities, in one Volume, digested into fourteen Books, for the general Use, and Good of Mankind, with strict Amendments and large Additions, to what formerly has been Published in this Kind, exceeding any other for the Multitude of pleasing Variety herein to be found.
Lupton, Thomas.Date: [1776]- Pictures
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An unsympathetic doctor giving a patient a prescription, telling her it doesn't matter whether she takes it or not. Reproduction of a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1931.
Stampa, G. L. (George Loraine), 1875-1951.Date: 1931Reference: 15497i- Books
Imprecisioni, assurdità e curiosità della nomenclatura farmaceutica ufficiale italiana / T. Sciortino, L. Serafin.
Sciortino, Terzo.Date: 1978- Pictures
A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 16121iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Pictures
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A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1880Reference: 14277i- Pictures
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A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1893Reference: 14302i- Pictures
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An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1874Reference: 13810i- Books
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The pharmacopoeia of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat (Golden Square.) : based on the British pharmacopoeia, 1867 / edited by Morell Mackenzie.
Hospital for Diseases of the Throat (London, England)Date: 1873- Books
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The pharmacopoeia of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat (Golden Square.) : based on the British pharmacopoeia, 1867 / edited by Morell Mackenzie.
Hospital for Diseases of the Throat (London, England)Date: 1872- Books
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The pharmacopoeia of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Chest (Golden Square) : based on the British pharmacopoeia / edited by Morell Mackenzie.
Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Chest (London, England)Date: 1881- Pictures
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A patient completely misunderstanding a doctor. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945.Date: 1898Reference: 14316i- Books
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The english physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete Method of Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself, being Sick, for Three-Pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The Way of making Plaisters, Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all Times of the Year-2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physic) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. - 5 The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Times-6. The Way of making and keeping all Kinds of useful Compounds made of Herbs. - 7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper, Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1794- Pictures
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A doctor reading out a letter from a dissatisfied patient to his wife over breakfast. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1878.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1878Reference: 13820i- Pictures
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A pharmacist making up a prescription for a kangaroo; representing Chamberlain's advocacy of the Commonwealth of Australia. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1900.
Tenniel, John, 1820-1914.Date: 1900Reference: 15207i- Pictures
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A dismayed man reading his doctor's recommendations to cut back on aspects of life that he enjoys. Wood engraving by Swains, 1888, after Sir J. Tenniel.
Tenniel, John, 1820-1914.Date: 1888Reference: 14289i- Pictures
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Six scenes narrating the fuss caused by a man's progression from minor cold to supposed major illness and then sudden recovery. Etching by J. Lisle after himself.
Lisle, Joe.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 12091i- Books
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The guardian goddess of health: or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence: with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness. To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London. By James Graham, M.D. This book is of so much real importance to the health and happiness of each individual among the public, that tho' it contains more matter or reading than most two shilling pamphlets, it is ordered to be sold for only two pence; - a price very inadequate to the prime cost of the paper, printing, distribution, &c. But salus populi suprema lex est!
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1780?]- Books
Bu yi Lei gong pao zhi bian lan / [Yi ming zhuan].
Date: 2005- Pictures
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A man barking and drinking port, following a doctor's orders. Coloured aquatint by I. Wilson after M. Egerton, 182-..
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1825?]Reference: 11877i- Pictures
A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1832]Reference: 16136i- Pictures
A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 20990i- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs