Poems in the collection give voice to personal experiences of health, healing and being human.

Marrons d'Inde.

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.

Two men, possibly students, carrying home a drunken doctor laid out on a door, verse below. Lithograph.

Thesaurus thesaurorum.

The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.

Events around and about !! : February - March 1993 / London Lighthouse.

The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong].

1 volume<br/>12 leaves + 235 ff. + 4 leaves 4 to. 20 + 151/ ; 2 cm Original vellum binding, 18th cent. flowered paper back; both leather ties defective. Some leaves are wanting after the 11th preliminary leaf, and at the end: foleave 225 is also wanting.

Mogliettis, Giuseppe de.

Bellevue literary review.

1 volume<br/>18 ll folio. 29 1/2 x ; 20 cm Unbound. Margins of some leaves frayed, with slight loss of text: second leaf torn.

Gregorio Dati (1362-1436).

3 unnumbered leaves, 174 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 124 pages, 4 plates (including frontispiece) ; (4to)

The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes / By Erasmus Darwin.

Quinti Sereni Samonici De medicina praecepta salvberrima / Textvm recensvit, lectiones varietatem, notas interpretvm selectiores svasqve adiecit Ioannes Christianus Gottlieb Ackermann.

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Mogliettis, Giuseppe de.

Bellevue literary review.

Gregorio Dati (1362-1436).

The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes / By Erasmus Darwin.

Quinti Sereni Samonici De medicina praecepta salvberrima / Textvm recensvit, lectiones varietatem, notas interpretvm selectiores svasqve adiecit Ioannes Christianus Gottlieb Ackermann.

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Mogliettis, Giuseppe de.

Bellevue literary review.

Gregorio Dati (1362-1436).

The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes / By Erasmus Darwin.

Quinti Sereni Samonici De medicina praecepta salvberrima / Textvm recensvit, lectiones varietatem, notas interpretvm selectiores svasqve adiecit Ioannes Christianus Gottlieb Ackermann.

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