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A professor asking a medical student his prognosis for a particular case. Coloured process print, 1900.

Trinity College, Dublin: Biological Association members on the steps of a College building. Photograph by J. Chancellor, 1893.

Birds dressed as surgeons or medical students dissect a body. Pen drawing attributed to J. Grandville, 1829.

Medical staff standing round a woman patient in bed in a hospital ward. Photograph by Seeberger Frères, ca. 1910.

Paris: a medical professor taking the pulse of a sick man in a hospital bed while medical students watch and take notes. Drawing by J.H. Marlet, ca. 1810.

A posterior view of a medical student wearing a surgical gown untidily tied up. Coloured pen drawing by E. Griset.

A periscope being used above an operation which is projected onto a lantern screen for a lecture in the adjoining room. Gouache painting by W.R. Seton.

An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].

A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette, a tankard is on top of his medical books; denoting a cavalier attitude. Lithograph, 1854.

L'Aesculape : guide pratique à l'usage des étudiants et des docteurs en médecine / E. de Lavarenne et F. Jayle.

Training the doctors. Part 2.

Training the doctors. Part 3.

Three episodes about Mr. Rapp, Mr. Jones and Mr. Manhug - medical students out on a botany field trip. Letterpress and wood engraving, 1842.

Observations on the office of a faithful teacher and on the duty of the attentive student of medicine, delivered as an introductory lecture to the institutions of medicine in the University of Edinburgh, on the 29th of October 1823 / by Andrew Duncan.

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L'Aesculape : guide pratique à l'usage des étudiants et des docteurs en médecine / E. de Lavarenne et F. Jayle.

Training the doctors. Part 2.

Training the doctors. Part 3.

Three episodes about Mr. Rapp, Mr. Jones and Mr. Manhug - medical students out on a botany field trip. Letterpress and wood engraving, 1842.

Observations on the office of a faithful teacher and on the duty of the attentive student of medicine, delivered as an introductory lecture to the institutions of medicine in the University of Edinburgh, on the 29th of October 1823 / by Andrew Duncan.