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The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.

Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.

Christ stands among sick people and Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1776, after Rembrandt, 1649.

Mademoiselle Hardouin, a woman who is paralysed in both legs and has to be transported everywhere. Engraving.

Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.

Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Wood engraving by H. Linton after T. Beech (?) after Rembrandt, 1649.

The Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem, Israel. Lithograph by D. Roberts, 1839.

Mademoiselle Hardouin miraculously cured of her paralysis at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

Crowds gather as Christ heals sick people. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after B. West.

The paralytic is lowered through the roof of a crowded house so that Christ can reach him and cure him. Engraving by J. Newton, 1795 (?), after C.R. Ryley.

Dissertatio medica de paralysi ... / [Jacobus Soldevilla-Barta].

Exposition des attributs du système nerveux : réfutation de la doctrine de Charles Bell, et explication des phénomènes de la paralysie / par le docteur Castel.

On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

On some forms of paralysis from peripheral neuritis : of gouty, alcoholic, diphtheritic, and other origin / by Thomas Buzzard.

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The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.

Dissertatio medica de paralysi ... / [Jacobus Soldevilla-Barta].

Exposition des attributs du système nerveux : réfutation de la doctrine de Charles Bell, et explication des phénomènes de la paralysie / par le docteur Castel.

On the therapeutic application of electro-magnetism in the treatment of rheumatic and paralytic affections / By Robert Froriep ; tr. from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance.

On some forms of paralysis from peripheral neuritis : of gouty, alcoholic, diphtheritic, and other origin / by Thomas Buzzard.