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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.

Bellevue literary review.

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum

English Medical Compendium, 16th century

A sitting blind beggar sells 'love sonnets' to obtain money with a boy. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.

Somewhere in the vastness of visible and invisible universe apple blossoms are falling / Egidija Ciricaite.

In this quiet church of night I say amen / Devin Kelly.

Ovarium / Joanna Ingham.

The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art / Tom McLeish.

The poetry pharmacy returns : more prescriptions for courage, healing and hope / William Sieghart.

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Somewhere in the vastness of visible and invisible universe apple blossoms are falling / Egidija Ciricaite.

In this quiet church of night I say amen / Devin Kelly.

Ovarium / Joanna Ingham.

The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art / Tom McLeish.

The poetry pharmacy returns : more prescriptions for courage, healing and hope / William Sieghart.