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Convalescence

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  • Hooker's Malted Milk (in soluble powder) : delicious & nutritious, highest quality / Thew, Hooker & Gilbey, Ltd.
  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • Hopîtal Royal de Bicêtre, Paris: patients exercising in the grounds. Engraving by Letitia Byrne, 1829, after T. Nash.
  • Franco-Prussian War: soldiers convalescing in the Palais Royale Military hospital. Etching by H. Tissot, 1870.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
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    Crimean War: wounded sailors convalescing at Haslar Hospital. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin after J. Mayall.

    Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin), 1813-1901. | Reference: 21355i
    • Books

    The convalescent child / [Frank T Falkner].

    Falkner, Frank T., 1918-2003. | Date: 1952
    • Books
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    The climate and resources of Madeira : as regarding chiefly the necessities of consumption and the welfare of invalids / by Michael C. Grabham.

    Grabham, Michael Comport, 1840-1935. | Date: MDCCCLXX [1870]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    "In sickness & in health" : Brand's Essence of Beef or Chicken / Brand & Co. Ltd.

    Brand & Co. (Vauxhall, London, England) | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]
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    The birth of Saint Edmund, he is being nursed by a midwife while his mother rests in bed and is aided by assistants, 1433. Aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.

    | Date: 1843 | Reference: 17258i
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