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Bruce Family
Date: 1837-1868Reference: MS.8051
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Succinct practical observations on the effects of bloodletting : containing an investigation of the practice of general and local abstraction of blood ; also how far leeches may be efficacious, independently of the evacuation they produce : to which are added ob[s]ervations on visceral inflammation after parturition / by Edward Geoghegan.
Date: 1833
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Anybody ill? : (I'm Doctor Quack) : the popular humorous song / music by Alfred Lee ; sung by Alf. Walker.
Lee, AlfredDate: [between 1870 and 1879?]
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Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GrandvilleDate: [1830]Reference: 32782i
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A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1824.
Q3047679Date: [1824]Reference: 16365i
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Broussais instructs a nurse to carry on bleeding a blood-besmeared patient. Coloured lithograph after V.L.
L., V.Reference: 16372i
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Two men share a joke about leeches in front of a pharmacy window. Coloured pen and ink drawing by Blondeau.
Blondeau.Reference: 17260i
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Blutegeltherapie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert / Ingo Wilhelm Müller.
Müller, Ingo WilhelmDate: 1985
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Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 24 août 1840 / par J.-J.-Louis Rouanet.
Rouanet, J.J. Louis.Date: 1840
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Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GrandvilleDate: 1830-1839Reference: 16367i
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Monographie de la famille des hirudinées / Par Alfred Moquin-Tandon.
Alfred Moquin-TandonDate: 1827
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A corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained and bedbound. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1833.
Numa, Pierre, active 1830-1848.Date: 1833Reference: 16555i
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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
Samuel De WildeDate: Published for the Satirist July 1st. 1809Reference: 12204i
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Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 30 décembre 1839, / par Napoléon Vivier, de Châteauroux ... I. Quelle est la valeur des signes fournis par l'inspection des tonsilles et du pharynx? ... [etc].
Vivier, Napoléon.Date: 1839
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A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
TravièsDate: [c. 1827]Reference: 16559i
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Further observations on the medical leech : including a reprint, from the Philosophical Transactions, of two memoirs, comprising observations on the hirudo vulgaris, or common rivulet leech ; and on the h. stagnalis and h. complanata, now constituting the genus glossopora / [J.R. Johnson].
James Rawlins JohnsonDate: 1825
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Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Hirudineen / von Heinrich Rathke ; herausgegeben und theilweise bearbeitet von Rudolf Leuckart.
Leuckart Rudolf, 1823-1898.Date: 1862
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Blood and guts: a history of surgery. Part 5, Bloody beginnings.
Date: 2008
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Six diagrams of cocoons of medicinal leeches. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Basire after W. Clift.
William CliftReference: 23021i
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Three women wading in a stream gathering leeches. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell, 1814, after G. Walker.
Walker, George, 1781-1856.Date: 1 April 1814Reference: 22996i
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Monographie des sangsues médicinales : contenant la description, l'éducation, la conservation, la reproduction, les maladies, l'emploi, le dégorgement et le commerce de ces annélides suivie de l'hygiéne des marais à sangsues / par Ch. Fermond.
Fermond, Charles, 1810-Date: 1854
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Specification of George Lifford Smartt : vessels for preserving leeches and fish alive.
Smartt, George Lifford.Date: 1854
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Rhazes (Rāzī), a physician, examines a kneeling boy who has his mouth wide open, they are in a surgery full of equipment. Colour process print after H. Behzad.
Bihzād, ḤusaynReference: 21257i
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The care and use of medicinal leeches in 19th century pharmacy and therapeutics / by John C. Hartnett.
Hartnett, John C.Date: 1972
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Johann Freidrich Dieffenbach : successful use of leeches in plastic surgery in the 1820s / R.T. Sawyer.
Sawyer, Roy T.Date: [1948-?]

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Anybody ill? : (I'm Doctor Quack) : the popular humorous song / music by Alfred Lee ; sung by Alf. Walker.

Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.

A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1824.

Broussais instructs a nurse to carry on bleeding a blood-besmeared patient. Coloured lithograph after V.L.

Two men share a joke about leeches in front of a pharmacy window. Coloured pen and ink drawing by Blondeau.

Blutegeltherapie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert / Ingo Wilhelm Müller.

Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 24 août 1840 / par J.-J.-Louis Rouanet.

Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.

Monographie de la famille des hirudinées / Par Alfred Moquin-Tandon.

A corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained and bedbound. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1833.

John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.

Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 30 décembre 1839, / par Napoléon Vivier, de Châteauroux ... I. Quelle est la valeur des signes fournis par l'inspection des tonsilles et du pharynx? ... [etc].

A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.

Further observations on the medical leech : including a reprint, from the Philosophical Transactions, of two memoirs, comprising observations on the hirudo vulgaris, or common rivulet leech ; and on the h. stagnalis and h. complanata, now constituting the genus glossopora / [J.R. Johnson].

Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Hirudineen / von Heinrich Rathke ; herausgegeben und theilweise bearbeitet von Rudolf Leuckart.

Blood and guts: a history of surgery. Part 5, Bloody beginnings.

Six diagrams of cocoons of medicinal leeches. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Basire after W. Clift.

Three women wading in a stream gathering leeches. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell, 1814, after G. Walker.

Monographie des sangsues médicinales : contenant la description, l'éducation, la conservation, la reproduction, les maladies, l'emploi, le dégorgement et le commerce de ces annélides suivie de l'hygiéne des marais à sangsues / par Ch. Fermond.

Specification of George Lifford Smartt : vessels for preserving leeches and fish alive.

Rhazes (Rāzī), a physician, examines a kneeling boy who has his mouth wide open, they are in a surgery full of equipment. Colour process print after H. Behzad.

The care and use of medicinal leeches in 19th century pharmacy and therapeutics / by John C. Hartnett.

Johann Freidrich Dieffenbach : successful use of leeches in plastic surgery in the 1820s / R.T. Sawyer.