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  • A Turk's-cap lily (Lilium martagon), a harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) and a pansy (Viola species): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • A physician examining urine. Mezzotint by C. Spooner after A. van Ostade.
  • Christi eiusque Matris Pietate servata : provisores salutis clodiae : si parte di questa città, per la iddio gratia, libera d'ogni mal contagioso gl'infrascritti per andar ... / Ioan. Bapt. Vianellus Not. Dep.
  • Abbaye Royale du Val de Grace, Paris: facade. Etching.
  • Janus head or two-faced man
  • Five men gather round a table to play cards, drink and smoke in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
  • Men smoking, drinking and singing in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after E. van Heemskerk.
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Works from the collections

2,423 works

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    Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

    | Date: 1988
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    The seventeenth-century transformation of the hysteric affection, and Sydenham's Baconian medicine / Jeffrey M.N. Boss.

    Boss, Jeffrey M. N. | Date: 1979
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    The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking by a barrel table and playing cards by the fire. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after D. Teniers.

    David Teniers the Younger | Reference: 26831i
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    The emergence of the social sciences, 1642-1792 / Richard Olson.

    Richard Olson | Date: [1993]
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    Vida y obra del Doctor Juan Gutiérrez de Godoy / [Fermín Palma Rodríguez].

    Fermín Palma Rodríguez | Date: 1967
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Related topics

England
Science
United Kingdom
Netherlands
France
London
Medicine - History - 17th century
Plague
Philosophy

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