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Anybody ill? : (I'm Doctor Quack) : the popular humorous song / music by Alfred Lee ; sung by Alf. Walker.
Lee, Alfred.Date: [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.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1830]Reference: 32782i
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Blutegeltherapie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert / Ingo Wilhelm Müller.
Müller, Ingo Wilhelm.Date: 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.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 16367i
Part of: Métamorphoses du jour
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Monographie de la famille des hirudinées / Par Alfred Moquin-Tandon.
Moquin-Tandon, Alfred, 1804-1863.Date: 1827
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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: 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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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.
Clift, William, 1775-1849.Reference: 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, Ḥusayn.Reference: 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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An omnibus full of distraught women due to leeches having escaped from their broken jar. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 12130i
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Abstract of a lecture upon the classification and structure of the leech : delivered before the members of the Pharmaceutical Society / by H. Letheby.
Letheby, H. (Henry), 1816-1876.Date: [1844?]
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[Phlebotomiographía], or, A treatise of phlebotomy : demonstrating the necessity of it in diseases; the time for elections. And likewise of the use and application of cupping-glasses, and leeches. Whereupon is added a brief and most methodicall tract of the crisis / Written originally in French, by Da de Plumis Campi ; and now faithfully rendred into English, by E.W. well-wisher to physick and chirurgery.
Planis Campy, David de, 1589-approximately 1644.Date: 1658
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London: Miscellany, 19th and 20th centuries
Date: 1897-1931Reference: MS.7294
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On the cure of amenorrhœa by leeches applied to the mammæ / by Charles Loudon.
Loudon, Charles, 1801-1844.Date: 1832
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Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des sangsues / par P. Thomas.
Thomas, P.Date: 1806
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Nùm easdem indicationes adimplere valent quaelibet sanguinis missiones : scilicet, phlebotomia, arteriotomia, hirudines, cucurbitulae? : thesis quam, Deo favente, in saluberrimâ Facultate Medicâ Parisiensi, praesentibus competitionis judicibus, publicis competitorum disputationibus subjiciet et dilucidare conabitur, mercurii die 25 februarii, anno 1824 / J.E. Tuffier.
Tuffier, Jacques Eugenius.Date: 1824
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Observations on the Hirudo complanata, and Hirudo stagnalis : now formed into a distinct genus under the name, Glossopora / by Dr. Johnson.
Johnson, James Rawlins, -1840.Date: 1817

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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.

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.

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].

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.

An omnibus full of distraught women due to leeches having escaped from their broken jar. Wood engraving by J. Leech.

Abstract of a lecture upon the classification and structure of the leech : delivered before the members of the Pharmaceutical Society / by H. Letheby.

London: Miscellany, 19th and 20th centuries

On the cure of amenorrhœa by leeches applied to the mammæ / by Charles Loudon.

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des sangsues / par P. Thomas.

Observations on the Hirudo complanata, and Hirudo stagnalis : now formed into a distinct genus under the name, Glossopora / by Dr. Johnson.