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A woman spoon-feeding a man while he is on the toilet, perhaps as one would a child. Etching by D. Deuchar (?).

A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.

Charity being given to poor hungry beggars by a rich household. Engraving by L. Audran after S. Bourdon.

Les obus de Choumara / P. Lachambeaudie.

Estampes, affiches, dessins originaux, tableaux / Pierrefort.

A country scene with many activities depicted: these include, from left to right, picking cherries, bathing, hay-making, hunting, and eating and drinking. Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A girl with a basket gathering mushrooms in a watermeadow. Engraving by Belvedere, 1802, after R. Westall.

Memorandum : from: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Menu : Eastern Command Motor Ambulance Convoy. No. 2 Company : Officer Commanding- Capt. R. Stewart Barnes : dinner held at Beale's Restaurant, Holloway Road, N. : Thursday, March 27th, 1919 at 7 p.m.

Air, water and food from a sanitary standpoint / by Ellen H. Richards and Alpheus G. Woodman.

Hygiene in food handling: types of food and ways of transmitting microbes. Colour lithograph, 2000.

Hutchison's Food and the principles of nutrition / Hugh M. Sinclair, Dorothy F. Hollingsworth.

Uṇavum uṭalnalamum / Cuvāmi Civāṉantar ; Tamiḻākkam Ki. Vāṉamāmalai.

Genetic engineering, food, and our environment / Luke Anderson.

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Air, water and food from a sanitary standpoint / by Ellen H. Richards and Alpheus G. Woodman.

Hygiene in food handling: types of food and ways of transmitting microbes. Colour lithograph, 2000.

Hutchison's Food and the principles of nutrition / Hugh M. Sinclair, Dorothy F. Hollingsworth.

Uṇavum uṭalnalamum / Cuvāmi Civāṉantar ; Tamiḻākkam Ki. Vāṉamāmalai.

Genetic engineering, food, and our environment / Luke Anderson.