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  • " Vaporole" Ammonium Chloride Inhaler
  • The "Pinol Eucalyptia " Dry Inhaler
  • Dickens :" Drinking Party at Bob Sawyers "
  • M. Neuburger " Historische entwicklung...", 1897; title page
  • Marianus Sanctus " De lapide", 1540; title page
  • Dickens :" Bob Sawyer on the roof of chaise "
  • A man exhibiting a counting horse with an unidentified object underneath. Engraving, 1785.
  • Anatomie from Diderot's Encyclopedie
  • Eight different monsters. Reproduction of a wood cut.
  • Eight different monsters. Reproduction of a wood cut.
  • A mermaid, with measuring scale. Line engraving by B. Cole, 1759 (?), after Jean-Baptiste André Gautier D'Agoty.
  • Laboratoire et table des raports; lab. & table of symbols
  • Electrical instruments exhibited at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition; including a tramway, an electric boat and an electric chair. Wood engraving by A. Marie, 1881.
  • A bitch is sitting in a basket watching her puppies play on a carthographic map on the ground. Line block after J. S. Hayes.
  • Charles Byrne, a giant, George Cranstoun, a dwarf, and three other normal sized men. Etching by J. Kay, 1794.
  • Cartoon "Civil Service Stores" from Punch 11 March 1876
  • Portrait of Don Antonio, court dwarf of Philip II.
  • A doctor telling an overweight patient (who mishears him) that he needs to cut out his apéritif not his appendix. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1923.
  • Above, Ferdinand Sauerbruch discussing a case; below left, a section of the audience; below right, a surgical operation. Process print after photographs by E. Salomon, 1930.
  • John Gale, known as Dumb Jack, a deaf mute man. Line engraving after J. Faber the elder.
  • A small man representing the press is holding a spoon with a gooseberry on it and feeding it to John Bull; representing worthless news stories in the British press during the summer. Process print after Ricardo Brook.
  • A man stands by a fountain playing music for his companions, who are also holding musical instruments. Coloured aquatint (?) by N. Whittock.
  • Tattoos on the chest
  • Sketches from a smallpox epidemic in Cape Town. Wood engraving.
  • Sketches from a smallpox epidemic in Cape Town. Wood engraving.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Memoirs for a natural history of animals. Containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild [!] ... To which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy, and Englished by Richard Waller.
  • A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
  • A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.