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A man discovering the physician Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jayher (?) after P. Valentin.

Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.

Price list of the Veedee, fitted cases, and of extra attachments designed for special uses / The Veedee Company.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.

A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.

The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.

A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.

Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

M0003818: Laennec examines a consumptive patient with a stethoscope in front of his students at the Necker Hospital, 1816

Medicine made to agree with the institutions of nature, or A new mechanical practice of physick ... / by Dav. Stephenson, M.A.

A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read.

Observations with Hutchison's spirometer / by C. Radclyffe Hall, M.D.

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Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

M0003818: Laennec examines a consumptive patient with a stethoscope in front of his students at the Necker Hospital, 1816

Medicine made to agree with the institutions of nature, or A new mechanical practice of physick ... / by Dav. Stephenson, M.A.

Observations with Hutchison's spirometer / by C. Radclyffe Hall, M.D.