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1 autograph letter, signed, to Dr. Richard Empson, asking the doctor to accede in Mrs. McCarthy's apparent request for an abortion (plus transcript supplied by vendor).

Miscellany: English, chiefly 19th-20th centuries

Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson (c.1770-c.1851), physician and physiologist

Phillips, Benjamin F.R.S. (1805-1861), surgeon

Phillips, Richard F.R.S. (1780-1851), chemist

Phillips, William, F.R.S. (1775-1828), mineralogist and geologist

Phillips, W. (fl.19th century)

Pick, Thomas Pickering (1841-1919), surgeon of St. George's Hospital

Pickles, William Norman (fl.1918-1937), Yorkshire physician

Pilcher, George, F.R.C.S. (1801-1855)

Pillans, James (1778-1864), Edinburgh professor of humanity and laws

Pim, Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan, Admiral (1826-1886), member of 1852 Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin

Pinkerton, John (1758-1826), antiquary and historian

Pinkerton, R., Dr. (fl.1852), at Frankfurt-am-Main

Pirrie, James Miller Gordon (1852-1891), Aberdeen physician

Pirrie, William (1807-1882), surgeon

Pitcairn, James, Sir, F.R.C.S. (1776-1859), surgeon and naturalist

Pitcairn, Robert (1793-1855), antiquary and miscellaneous writer

Pitman, John (fl.1842), painter

Pittard, Simon Rood M.R.C.S. (d.1861), surgeon

Planta, Joseph, I (1744-1827), librarian, British Museum

Planta, Joseph, II (1787-1847), diplomat, private secretary to the statesman George Canning (1770-1827)

Playfair, George Ranken (d.1881), Surgeon-General, Bengal Medical Service

Playfair, John, F.R.S. (1748-1819), mathematician and geologist

Playfair, John (1851-1933), physician

Playfair, William (1759-1823), journalist, miscellaneous author and mechanic

Playfair, William Smoult, F.R.C.P. (1835-1903), obstetrician

Playfair, Dr.

Plimsoll, Samuel (1824-1898), Radical M.P., "Sailors' Friend" and campaigner for maritime safety

Pollock, David, Sir (1780-1847), judge, chief justice of Bombay Supreme Court

Pollock, Jonathon Frederick, Sir (1783-1870), judge, receiver-general of customs

Pond, John (1767-1836), astronomer-royal

Pope, Charles D. (fl.1940)

Porrett, Robert, F.R.S. (1783-1868), chemist

Postgate, John, F.R.C.S. (1820-1881), surgeon

Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir (1856-1943), zoologist

McCarthy, Charles (fl.1835)

McCarthy, Charles (fl.1835)

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