A note from Thomas Coram, the founder of the 'Foundling Hospital' Size:S: 60 x 45cm Warwickshire

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wrote on the rabbit tapeworm Coenurus for the London Medical Gazette in 1833 and later corresponded on the subject with Richard Owen FRS (1804-1892)

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A letter from Dr Smollett to Samuel Richardson

A note from Thomas Coram, the founder of the 'Foundling Hospital' Size:S: 60 x 45cm WarwickshireA note from Thomas Coram, the founder of the 'Foundling Hospital', 1747, (1840). A note to the steward or matron from philanthropist Captain Thomas Coram (1668 1751) who established the Foundling Hospital in London where destitute mothers could anonymously leave their babies. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).