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x, 376 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Mountain medicine : a clinical study of cold and high altitude / Michael Ward.

Correspondence by and to Tyndall; notes, signatures and other associated items.
Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

Tyndall, John F.R.S. (1820-1893), British physicist

xvi, 174 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

Ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, 16th-18th of 9th month September, 1834 / By Martin Barry, M.D.

Peter Lloyd.

'Tabloid' guide to medical and first-aid equipments / Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

All-England series

Mountaineering / by claude Wilson ; with illustrations by Ellis Carr.

73 leaves : illustrations, portrait ; 31 cm

Extreme medicine : medical aspects of Polar and mountain expeditions / by Andrew Hodson.

Life of man in the high Alps / by Angelo Mosso ; translated from the second edition of the Italian by E. Lough Kiesow.

The Tabloid medicine chests were distributed free to well known explorers such as H.M Stanley and Ernest Shackleton. The word 'tabloid' was coined by the firm of Burroughs Wellcome and registered as a trademark

1 print : process print, printed in colours

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Mountain medicine : a clinical study of cold and high altitude / Michael Ward.

Tyndall, John F.R.S. (1820-1893), British physicist

Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

Ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, 16th-18th of 9th month September, 1834 / By Martin Barry, M.D.

Peter Lloyd.

'Tabloid' guide to medical and first-aid equipments / Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

Mountaineering / by claude Wilson ; with illustrations by Ellis Carr.

Extreme medicine : medical aspects of Polar and mountain expeditions / by Andrew Hodson.

Life of man in the high Alps / by Angelo Mosso ; translated from the second edition of the Italian by E. Lough Kiesow.

Situations in which a Tabloid medicine chest made by Burroughs Wellcome would be useful. Colour process print, ca. 1909.

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Mountain medicine : a clinical study of cold and high altitude / Michael Ward.

Tyndall, John F.R.S. (1820-1893), British physicist

Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

Ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, 16th-18th of 9th month September, 1834 / By Martin Barry, M.D.

Peter Lloyd.

'Tabloid' guide to medical and first-aid equipments / Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

Mountaineering / by claude Wilson ; with illustrations by Ellis Carr.

Extreme medicine : medical aspects of Polar and mountain expeditions / by Andrew Hodson.

Life of man in the high Alps / by Angelo Mosso ; translated from the second edition of the Italian by E. Lough Kiesow.

Situations in which a Tabloid medicine chest made by Burroughs Wellcome would be useful. Colour process print, ca. 1909.

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