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  • Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D., a pathfinder in medicine : with selections from her writings and a complete bibliography / edited by the Women's Medical Association of New York City.
  • Bibliotheca chirurgica qua scripta ad artem chirurgicam facientia a rerum initiis recensentur / Autore Alberto von Haller.
  • Graphische and typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496 : zusammengetragen und ins Licht gestellt / von Karl Sudhoff. (Mit 24 Tafeln).
  • Graphische and typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496 : zusammengetragen und ins Licht gestellt / von Karl Sudhoff. (Mit 24 Tafeln).
  • Graphische and typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496 : zusammengetragen und ins Licht gestellt / von Karl Sudhoff. (Mit 24 Tafeln).
  • Deutsche medizinische Inkunabeln : bibliographisch-literarische Untersuchungen / von Karl Sudhoff.
  • Early books on medicine, natural sciences and alchemy.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • First edition of Bencao Gangmu; Chinese, 1590
  • The female generative organs, after Haller. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • The viscera, after Haller, showing the lobes of the liver, the stomach, the kidneys, the spleen, etc. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch, Cowper and Bidloo. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt, 1762.
  • The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch; the tongue after Heister. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch, Cowper and Bidloo. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch; the tongue after Heister. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.
  • The flexor muscles of the arm, hand and fingers, separated from each other and raised through the use of a dowel and a perforated box. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • A human skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut after Hans Wechtlin, 1517.
  • The arterial system of the human body. Engraving, 1568.
  • The venous and arterial system of the human body with internal organs and detail figures of the generative system. Engraving, 1568.
  • Two male figures, seen from the front and back, with the cutaneous veins of the human body displayed. Engraving, 1568.
  • The vascular and arterial system of the human brain (II), the pulmonary artery (III), the venal artery (IIII) and the portal system of veins (I). Engraving, 1568.
  • An écorché, seen in right profile, walking towards the right. Engraving, 1568.
  • Two figures with their thoracic cavity exposed, one dissecting the other (figs I-II), together with illustrations mainly of the heart (figs III-XI) and two of the lungs (figs XII-XIII). Engraving, 1568.
  • Bulletin of the history of medicine.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.