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A montage of portraits of nine Scots physicians, with their signatures underneath. Photoprint.

Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.

William Pulteney Alison. Lithograph.

William Pulteney Alison. Photograph.

William Pulteney Alison. Stipple engraving by J. H. Robinson, 1849, after G. Richmond.

William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine / Sheonagh M.K. Martin.

William Pulteney Alison : Scottish pioneer of social medicine / by J.H.F. Brotherston.

William Pulteney Alison / Joy Pitman.

Remarks on the report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Poor-Laws of Scotland, presented to Parliament in 1844, and on the dissent of Mr. Twisleton from that report / by William Pulteney Alison.

Dissertation on the state of medical science, from the termination of the eighteenth century to the present time / by W.P. Alison.

History of medicine in the present century / W. P. Alison.

On single and correct vision : by means of double and inverted images on the retinae / by W.P. Alison.

Report by the committee ... appointed to consdier any bills that may be brought into Parliament for the improvement of the health of towns, and the applicability of such measures to Scotland / [Ed. by W.P. Alison].

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Remarks on the report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Poor-Laws of Scotland, presented to Parliament in 1844, and on the dissent of Mr. Twisleton from that report / by William Pulteney Alison.

Dissertation on the state of medical science, from the termination of the eighteenth century to the present time / by W.P. Alison.

History of medicine in the present century / W. P. Alison.

On single and correct vision : by means of double and inverted images on the retinae / by W.P. Alison.

Report by the committee ... appointed to consdier any bills that may be brought into Parliament for the improvement of the health of towns, and the applicability of such measures to Scotland / [Ed. by W.P. Alison].