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Thomas Wakley. Coloured wood engraving by W. W.

Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

Thomas Wakley. Stipple engraving by W. H. Egleton after J.K. Meadows.

A patient refusing the prescriptions of opposing doctors; referring to Russell's refusal to take any further part in electoral reform. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1837.

Thomas Wakley shown as Orpheus with his lyre, opposing the Literary Copyright Act of 1842 on the grounds that he could write poetry according to a recipe; and British tradesmen offering shoddy coats for sale. Letterpress and wood engraving.

Bransby Blake Cooper, acquiring gold coins by his appointment to Guy's Hospital, is attacked by a lancet, representing the journal The lancet and its editor Thomas Wakley. Coloured etching by W. Heath (Paul Pry), 182-.

Thomas Wakley. Stipple engraving by H. Fernell, 1835, after J.K. Meadows.

Thomas Wakley, founder of The Lancet / by Dr David Kerr, MP.

The life and times of Thomas Wakley : founder and first editor of the "Lancet", member of Parliament for Finsbury, and coroner for West Middlesex / by S. Squire Sprigge.

Thomas Wakley : an improbable radical / by John Hostettler.

The lancet.

The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley].

A report of the trial of Cooper v. Wakley, for an alleged libel, taken by shorthand writers employed expressly for the occasion : with an engraving of the instruments, and the position of the patient / together with B. Cooper's "Prefatory remarks" on the evidence, and a copious explanatory appendix, by Thomas Wakley.

The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B.

The lancet. [Nos 316-317].

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Wakley, Thomas, 1795-1862

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The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley].

The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B.

The lancet.

The lancet. [Nos 316-317].