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A woman has just died: one man breaks the news to another. Wood engraving.

Miss Melcombe visits Mr Huntley, while on his deathbed in the attendance of his physician. Engraving, 1771.

The discovery of King Harold's body at the Battle of Hastings. Line engraving by E.R. Whitfield after W. Hilton, 1834.

Abraham and Isaac embrace in the wilderness, in the shock of their reprieve. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.

A soldier takes his hat off to a lady at her table but finds that she preferred "les Lanciers". Lithograph by Villain, 1826, after H. Bellangé.

Action and reaction in pathology and therapeutics Series II. Teleology (old and new)

Workmen's sickness and accident insurance--second series

Shock and circulatory homeostasis : transactions of the second conference, October 19, 20, and 21, 1952, Princeton, N.J / edited by Harold D. Green.

Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans

Intravenous injection in wound shock : being the Oliver-Sharpey lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in May 1918 / by W.M. Bayliss.

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Action and reaction in pathology and therapeutics Series II. Teleology (old and new)

Workmen's sickness and accident insurance--second series

Shock and circulatory homeostasis : transactions of the second conference, October 19, 20, and 21, 1952, Princeton, N.J / edited by Harold D. Green.

Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans

Intravenous injection in wound shock : being the Oliver-Sharpey lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in May 1918 / by W.M. Bayliss.