62 results filtered with: Leeches
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Two surgeons treating two seated male patients in a surgery, many surgeons' dishes are hanging from the ceiling. Line engraving by W. Kilian, 1652, after C. Ortz.
Ortz, Caspar.Date: [1652]Reference: 22315i
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A treatise on the medicinal leech ; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also, remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches. / By James Rawlins Johnson.
Johnson, James Rawlins, -1827.Date: 1816- Books
Leech / Robert G.W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton.
Kirk, Robert G. W.Date: 2012
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A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.Date: 1827Reference: 652845i
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M0007022: Photograph of two leeches, possibly photographed under microscope
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/60/11Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or, leech bleeding, in the treatment of a great variety of diseases : including the opinions of eminent practitioners, ancient and modern; with instructions for the process of leeching, and an appendix, delineating the characteristic distinction of true leeches, with directions for their management and preservation / by Rees Price.
Price, Rees.Date: 1822- Pictures
Three diagrams of cocoons of medicinal leeches. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Basire after W. West.
West, William, active 1830-1840.Reference: 23023i
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A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches / [James Rawlins Johnson].
Johnson, James Rawlins, active 1792-1827.Date: 1816
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Misunderstanding between a doctor and his working-class patient, who has swallowed the leeches he prescribed. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1877.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1877Reference: 13816i
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An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
Date: [1750?]Reference: 15904i- Books
Anglo-Saxon leechcraft : an historical sketch of early English medicine : lecture memoranda, American Medical Association, Atlantic City, 1912.
Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936.Date: [1912]
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On the head kidney of bdellostoma : with a suggestion as to the origin of the suprarenal bodies / W.F.R. Weldon.
Weldon, W. F. R. (Walter Frank Raphael), 1860-1906.Date: [1884]