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A maid pours a cup of tea for the woman teacher (far right). Boxes and bowls of food are brought in (far left). Left, men trying to keep warm are seated around a box of sand containing glowing pieces of charcoal
Shamisen: three-stringed plucked instrument

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours, triptych ; sheets 37 x 25 cm each (3 sheets)

A noted shamisen teacher playing to assembled pupils, some of whom follow with scores, while others relax on the floor. Colour woodcut triptych by Yoshitora, 1866.

"Patent for an "apparatus for applying heat, cold, moisture, fumes, vapors, and other agents in medicine and surgery".

Specification of John Rose : apparatus for applying heat, cold, and other agents in medicine and surgery.

1 print : etching ; platemark 17 x 23.5 cm

Activities of winter: a man is chopping wood and others are warming themselves at a bonfire on a river bank. Etching by Perelle.

The room is littered with treatments: "Boiling shower bath", "Red hot closet", "Red hot iron poultices twice a minute", "Red hot lead draughts 50 times a day", "Mustard", "Flannel", "Brandy", "Brandy hot", Chamois leather", "Vitriol", "Cayene"

1 print : soft-ground etching, with watercolour ; platemark 18.7 x 22.4 cm

A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.

The barman in the pub is the industrialist and philanthropist Anthony John Mundella, as indicated by the notice behind the bar "A.J. Mundela [sic] licensed retailer of ale beer and porter". Mundella was elected Liberal member of parliament for Sheffield at the election in 1868. Two other notices behind the bar say "Library 1d per week" and "Knives forks and plates lent here 1½ per week"

The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.

Climber in hospital suffering from frostbite one day after a climbing accident.

Climber suffering from frostbite

He is mortifying himself by standing outside in the cold and flagellating his back

Saint Dominic Loricatus. Engraving after M. de Vos.

Widefield fluorescence microscopy and deconvolution image of a dorsal root ganglion neurone from an adult mouse. These neurones (red; beta-3 tubulin) are part of the peripheral nervous system and are responsible for transmitting sensory information such as pain, cold and heat to the brain. They release neurotransmitters transported in vesicles (green; VAMP2) to communicate. The cell nucleus (blue; DAPI) is also visible here. Width of image is 733 micrometres.

Dorsal root ganglion neurone from a mouse, LM

The man has a fur hat but is poorly shod

A family of poor travellers on foot, wrapped up against the cold, travelling with their goat. Etching by F. Londonio, ca. 1759.

6 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 11 cm

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A noted shamisen teacher playing to assembled pupils, some of whom follow with scores, while others relax on the floor. Colour woodcut triptych by Yoshitora, 1866.

Specification of John Rose : apparatus for applying heat, cold, and other agents in medicine and surgery.

Activities of winter: a man is chopping wood and others are warming themselves at a bonfire on a river bank. Etching by Perelle.

A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.

The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.

Climber suffering from frostbite

Saint Dominic Loricatus. Engraving after M. de Vos.

Dorsal root ganglion neurone from a mouse, LM

A family of poor travellers on foot, wrapped up against the cold, travelling with their goat. Etching by F. Londonio, ca. 1759.

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A noted shamisen teacher playing to assembled pupils, some of whom follow with scores, while others relax on the floor. Colour woodcut triptych by Yoshitora, 1866.

Specification of John Rose : apparatus for applying heat, cold, and other agents in medicine and surgery.

Activities of winter: a man is chopping wood and others are warming themselves at a bonfire on a river bank. Etching by Perelle.

A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.

The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.

Climber suffering from frostbite

Saint Dominic Loricatus. Engraving after M. de Vos.

Dorsal root ganglion neurone from a mouse, LM

A family of poor travellers on foot, wrapped up against the cold, travelling with their goat. Etching by F. Londonio, ca. 1759.

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