Interment of the remains of the late Lord Viscount Nelson in the Cathedral of St. Paul, London on the 9th of January, 1806. Engraved by F.C. Lewis a from a drawing made by C.A. Pugin, during the time ...
Credit: Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty's command. Source: Wellcome ...
Catalogue of the Anup Sanskrit Library / prepared by C. Kunhan Raja and K. Madhava Krishna Sarma.
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In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...
How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...
show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.
show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...
show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...
The fleet for the North China Expedition of 1860 in the bay; buildings in the foreground ...
Circulatory Changes in the Fingers in some Diseases of the Nervous System, with special reference to the Digital Atrophy of Peripheral Nerve Lesions. Lewis, T. and Pickering, G.W. Clin. Sci., 1936, 2, ...