Theophilus Lobb (1678–1763) was an English physician, known as a medical and as a religious writer. Theophilus Lobb, 1767 engraving...
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Lobb Origin: England. Origins of Lobb: Listed as Lobb and Lobbe in England, and Lobe in Ireland, this is an English surname. It has two possible meanings.
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Find books, manuscripts, paintings, illustrations, photos and unpublished archives about Hulett, James, -1771, many of them with free online access.
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Today, we will take a quick look at Henry C. Burdett's book Cottage Hospitals General, Fever, and Convalescent. This book is part of the...
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Changing Perceptions of Anger in the Eighteenth Century. A guest post by Dr Lina Minou. Anger by Charles Le Brun credit:...
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What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did they talk about food? Did their eating habits change much?
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This article tells the story of an eighteenth-century medical pamphlet called An essay on the nature and cure of the King's Evil, deduced from observation and...
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Chapter 1 introduces smallpox and, its ultimate nemesis, cowpox. At the beginning of the modern age, a more virulent strain of smallpox spread around the world.
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World Diabetes Day is marked annually on the 14th November. The organization DiABETES UK gives a very simple explanation of the nature and types of diabetes...
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Download free image of John Wesley. Photogravure by Waterlow & Sons after J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams. about book, face, person, art,...
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