The kaleidoscope of innovation and adversity in science and medicine that shaped London’s past, from outbreaks to breakthroughs.

Training programme 2000/2001 : courses on HIV / AIDS and lesbian & gay issues in mental health / PACE, Project for Advice, Counselling & Education.

The tallest man in the world : Herr Winkelmeier, the celebrated Austrian giant, exclusively engaged at the London Pavilion.

The cits ordinary at the Gate House Highgate, or every hog to his own apple : Eating out. No. 3.

World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : London 26-28 January 1988 : use of the interpretation equipment / jointly organised by the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom Government.

The official gay & lesbian guide : Winter 93-94 / GBA.

International health exhibition : south gallery, stand no. 217 : G. Fleming, manufacturer of the patent air-tight & lock corks.

Eat as much as you like : £7.95 per person lunch buffet / Poppadom Express.

Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard. Coloured engraving.

The illustrated London news.

Genuine Indian arrow root : by appointment of the importer : also some fine turkey rhubarb / sold by Randall and Co.

[Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at The Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, London].

"The parish of St George-the-martyr is a veritable hospital town" : medical treatment available to the Holborn poor during the second half of the nineteenth century / Jacqueline Watson.

The inhalation. : Not to be taken. / Savory & Moore.

46 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm

The story of the Bloomsbury dispensary / [Roma McAuliffe].

A handlist of the manuscripts in South Asian languages in the Library [of the School of Oriental and African Studies] / [prepared] by R.C. Dogra.

[Report] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hornsey Borough.

An act for regulating of buildings and party-walls, and preventing mischiefs by fire in London and Westminster : passed in the 14th year of George III : illustrated with plates shewing the proper thickness of party-walls, external-walls and chimnies : with a complete index and list of surveyors.

63 pages, 48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

The Silver Fête programme : the only authorised book giving the whole list of entertainment, shows, and all particulars, with costumes and dresses of the ladies assisting / [Victoria Hospital for Children].

Orders conceiued and agreed to be published, by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the citie of London, and the iustices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell.

A general bill of all the christnings and burials, from the 19 of December, 1665 to the 18 of December, 1666 / According to the report made ... by the Company of Parish-Clerks of London.

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An act for regulating of buildings and party-walls, and preventing mischiefs by fire in London and Westminster : passed in the 14th year of George III : illustrated with plates shewing the proper thickness of party-walls, external-walls and chimnies : with a complete index and list of surveyors.

The Silver Fête programme : the only authorised book giving the whole list of entertainment, shows, and all particulars, with costumes and dresses of the ladies assisting / [Victoria Hospital for Children].

Orders conceiued and agreed to be published, by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the citie of London, and the iustices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell.

A general bill of all the christnings and burials, from the 19 of December, 1665 to the 18 of December, 1666 / According to the report made ... by the Company of Parish-Clerks of London.

"The parish of St George-the-martyr is a veritable hospital town" : medical treatment available to the Holborn poor during the second half of the nineteenth century / Jacqueline Watson.

The inhalation. : Not to be taken. / Savory & Moore.

The story of the Bloomsbury dispensary / [Roma McAuliffe].

A handlist of the manuscripts in South Asian languages in the Library [of the School of Oriental and African Studies] / [prepared] by R.C. Dogra.

[Report] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hornsey Borough.

London

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An act for regulating of buildings and party-walls, and preventing mischiefs by fire in London and Westminster : passed in the 14th year of George III : illustrated with plates shewing the proper thickness of party-walls, external-walls and chimnies : with a complete index and list of surveyors.

The Silver Fête programme : the only authorised book giving the whole list of entertainment, shows, and all particulars, with costumes and dresses of the ladies assisting / [Victoria Hospital for Children].

Orders conceiued and agreed to be published, by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the citie of London, and the iustices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell.

A general bill of all the christnings and burials, from the 19 of December, 1665 to the 18 of December, 1666 / According to the report made ... by the Company of Parish-Clerks of London.

"The parish of St George-the-martyr is a veritable hospital town" : medical treatment available to the Holborn poor during the second half of the nineteenth century / Jacqueline Watson.

The inhalation. : Not to be taken. / Savory & Moore.

The story of the Bloomsbury dispensary / [Roma McAuliffe].

A handlist of the manuscripts in South Asian languages in the Library [of the School of Oriental and African Studies] / [prepared] by R.C. Dogra.

[Report] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hornsey Borough.

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