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Philippine Welser. Etching, 16--(?)

Friedrich Roth-Scholtz. Line engraving by D. C. C. Fleischmann, 1725
Friedrich Roth-Scholtz. Line engraving by D.C.C. Fleischmann, 1725

Johannes Mueller. Lithograph

The Israelites encampment in the wilderness, guided by God in the form of a pillar of smoke. Watercolour by J. J
The Israelites encampment in the wilderness, guided by God in the form of a pillar of smoke. Watercolour by J.J. Derghi, 1866

A lion and a lamb. Cut-out engravings pasted onto paper, 16--?

Diagram of Cerebellum, Section of Cerebellum, Horizontal Section of ventricles

New York dispensary, New York. Coloured wood engraving

Portrait of Mark Akenside, Physician to the Queen and poet

Dental instruments, from Chirurgia

Scheuchzer, 1731-33: snowflakes

A snake being put in a sack by a man using a long tool, Australia. Photograph, 1900/1920

Several examples of diseased kidneys, numbered for key. Colour etching by Ambroise Tardieu for Rayer

A village of Indians of Florida. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820

Woodcut, Anatomical Fugitive Sheet, c. 1540
Woodcut, Anatomical Fugitive Sheet, c.1540

Heinrich Bamberger. Photograph

Bones of the arm and hand: two figures. Ink and watercolour, 1830/1835?, after W. Cheselden, ca. 1733

Dissections of femoral arteries affected by calcification, with illustrations of subperitoneal phlebectasia and rectal rectal hemorrhoids. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897

A bird's-tongue plant (Ornithoglossum glaucum): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c
A bird's-tongue plant (Ornithoglossum glaucum): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1802, after H. Andrews

John Flamsteed. Line engraving by O. Birrell, 1795, after T. Gibson, 1712

Chart showing the hands and points to feel the pulse

Diploma appointing Joshua Bedford Honorary Member of the London Vaccine Institute, 1832

The sense of taste: diners around a feasting table containing a swan and a human skeleton, above, scenes of communion and Abraham and the three angels. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N

An Indian musician playing the shehnai. Gouache painting by an Indian artist

A fox and a wolf are fighting each other in a pit with a crowd of animals looking on. Reproduction of an etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf

Five cremation urns. Etching after J. Barbault

Rose-of-Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus): flowering stem. Watercolour

A human being with two heads. Woodcut, c. 1490
A human being with two heads. Woodcut, c.1490

Shennong, Emperor of China

A woman is unreeling ribbon to wind it on to cards. Coloured lithograph by Charles Philipon

Mental patients, 19th century, Matthias Claudius

Dr Muir. Photograph

Francis Shillington-Scales. Photograph by J. Palmer Clarke

George Jones. Engraving by J. Drapentier, ca. 1675

John Fothergill. Line engraving by A. J. A. Mignerot after R. Livesay, 1782

Arms showing funis brachii, Berengarius, 1523

A Sikh (?) woman in a bright orange dress holding an umbrella and walking. Gouache painting by an Indian painter

A willow (Salix violacea): leafy and flowering branches with floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1804, after H. Andrews

Advertisement for metallic instruments claimed to cure disease

Cross-sections of hands and fingers and amputations of fingers. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Leveille

Eight plants, including two orchids, a crocus and some tulips: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837

A sleeping lion in a mountainous landscape. Etching by J. E. Ridinger

Chemistry: plan and section of two blast furnaces. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804, after D. Mushet

Mallow (Malva species): flowering stem. Watercolour

Guy De Chauliac, Cyrurgia

Textiles: tapestry dyeing, two boilers (top), washing (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel

A plant (Lycopus exaltatus): flowering stem with part of rootstock and separate floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775

Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk: cloisters entrance. Line engraving by W. French, 1837, after R. Garland

BMJ, Aug. 3, 1895; advert for Cerebrinine

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