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The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.
Date: 9-11 April, 1987- Books
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The adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, &c. in Greece, and one of the princes who conducted the siege of Troy. Complete in twenty-four books. Originally written in French, not only for the Use and Instruction of the Dauphin of France, to guard him, in an allegorical Way, against forming his Conduct after the bad Example of his Grandfather Louis XIV. but also to promote the Happiness of Mankind in general; by Francis Salignac de la Motte Fenelon, Late Archbishop of Cambray, in the French Netherlands. Now newly translated fro the best Paris and other editions, by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Author of the New Abridgment of the Roman History-of the Complete Abridgment of the Grecian History-And of the New Universal Story-Teller, or Modern Picture of Human Life; being an approved Collection of original and select Pieces in Prose and Verse. - Price 3s. each bound. To which are added, the life of the original author; the Heads and Arguments of each Book at Large; and a great Variety of Notes, Historical, Critical, Explanatory, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Philological, Satirical, and Illustrative: Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and Remarks, with Allusions to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, particularly to the Histories of England and France:-A Work of the first Reputation, replete with Maxinis of Human Prudence, and including the most persect System of Morality ever presented to the World, displaying to all Descriptions of Persons the Horrors of Vice, and the Charms of Virtue, in the most forcible Manner. The Mysteries of the wisest and best Politics are here developed: the inordinate Passions are depicted as a Yoke equally disgraceful and fatal; while the Moral Duties appear with all the Attractions of Ease and Beauty. The reasoning is just, the precepts are important. It is a Work which Genius and Learning have dedicated to Virtue: it at once captivates the Imagination, informs the Understanding, and regulates the Will. This valuable Book teaches us to make Morality an Religion our Guide in good, as well as in adverse Fortune; never to forget the Love we owe our Paretnts and our Courntry. It forms our Minds for a king, a Citizen, a feather, a mother, a Master, a Gentleman, a Tradesman, a Servant, and even a Slave, if such should be our Lot; and, in short, teaches us to act properly in all the vaious Spheres of Life. Mentor (under which Character is meant Minerva) in his Counsels to Telemachus, must make us just, humane, patient, sincere, discret, and modest. He never speaks but he places, engages, moves and persuades. We cannot attend to him but with Admiration; and, in Proportion as we admire, we cannot help loving his Advice, which is entertaining as well as instructive. This Translation has been carefully revised with all the former Editions, and particular Attention has been paid to the various Readings of Hawkesworth, Smollett, Boyer, Litterbury, Oldes, Ozell, and others, entirely omitting their Inaccuracies and Blemithes, and preserving whatever we judged might elucidate the great Design the Author had in View when he composed this Work, viz, of promoting the Happiness of his noble Pupil and of the World in general. Embellished in a very superior Stile of Magnificence, with a set of unusually grand copper-plates, exquisitely designed by those ingenious Artists, Kauffman, Monnet, Eisen, and Morlau, and engraved, in a capital Manner, by Messrs. Walker, Collyer Grignion, Bartolozzi, and Grainger, who have exerted their unrivalled Talents in these splendid Performances; single Impression of which will be charged at as, each Print: so that these capital Engravings alone will be absolutely worth Four Times the Price of the whole Work; which is the most beautiful Edition of Telemachus ever published in this or any other Country, and Calculated To Gratify Every Class Of AtReaders.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: [1785]- Archives and manuscripts
Donated Papers
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1992-2004Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/25Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Videos
NHS : The perfect storm. A Panorama special.
Date: 2015- Books
A history of disability in nineteenth-century Scotland / Iain Hutchison ; with a foreword by Rab Houston.
Hutchison, Iain.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Books
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A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- Books
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On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history : including the substances of a discourse on that subject, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the evening of Friday, April 26, 1861 / by Professor Owen.
Date: 1862- Pictures
A doctor taking the pulse of his patient - convinced that his prescription of a clyster has been successful - unaware that she has eaten the clyster-pipe. Coloured etching by G. Grinagain, 1804.
Grinagain, Giles, active 1804.Date: 2 January 1804Reference: 11831i- Pictures
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A patient asking her doctor his political leanings, he retorts that it varies - depending on who he is treating. Wood engraving after A.T. Smith.
Smith, Albert Talbot, 1877-Reference: 15665i- Books
The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.
Arnold-Forster, AgnesDate: 2021- Journals
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Victorian literature and culture
Date: 1991-- Books
Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.
Date: [2014]- 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- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]- Books
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Half a century of sanitary progress, and its results / by H. Franklin Parsons.
Parsons, H. Franklin (Henry Franklin), 1846-1913.Date: 1899- Books
Child insanity in England, 1845-1907 / Steven J. Taylor.
Taylor, Steven J. (Of the University of Leicester)Date: [2017]- Pictures
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A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: April 1827Reference: 11885i- Books
The greedy queen : eating with Victoria / Annie Gray.
Gray, Annie (Food historian)Date: 2017- Books
Medicine in modern Britain 1780-1950 / Deborah Brunton.
Brunton, DeborahDate: 2019- Pictures
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A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
Date: 4 June 1806Reference: 16623i- Pictures
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A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
Date: 18 April 1800Reference: 11639i- Pictures
A fashionable doctor visiting a fashionable lady patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1869.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1869Reference: 15688i- 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
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A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945.Date: 1898Reference: 14315i