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National characteristics, English

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  • An English doctor instructs his English patient not to eat as he does. Coloured engraving by Louis-Franc̦ois Charon.
  • A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.
  • A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.

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    A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.

    | Reference: 16134i
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    A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.

    | Date: [c. 1800] | Reference: 16132i
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    Myths of the English / edited by Roy Porter.

    | Date: 1992
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    Observations on the influence of habits and manners, national and domestic, upon the health and organization of the human race : and particularly on the effect of that influence as it relates to the present state of English females, in the higher and middle classes of life / [Ralph Palin].

    Palin, Ralph. | Date: 1822
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    An English doctor instructs his English patient not to eat as he does. Coloured engraving by Louis-Franc̦ois Charon.

    | Reference: 16061i

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