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  • An eminent physician looks at the tongue of an elderly hypochondriac. Colour etching after J.F. Dunant, 1823.
  • An eminent physician looks at the tongue of an elderly hypochondriac. Colour etching after J.F. Dunant, 1823.
  • A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaudice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... by an eminent physician.
  • Bibliotheca anatomica, medica, chirurgica, &c. Containing a description of the several parts of the body: each done by some one or more eminent physician or chirurgeon; with their diseases and cures. Wherein are not only all the tracts of use that are in the second edition of the Bibliotheca anatomica, lately publish'd by Daniel Clericus and Jacob Mangetus ... but in addition also of near double the number of other curious tracts.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • Dr. Lower's and several other eminent physicians receipts: containing the best and safest method for curing most diseases in humane bodies ... / [Richard Lower].
  • The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London : comprising biographical sketches of all the eminent physicians whose names are recorded in the Annals. Vol. I, 1518 to 1700 / by William Munk.
  • Essays on the bilious fever : containing the different opinions of those eminent physicians John Williams and Parker Bennett, of Jamaica: which was the cause of a duel, and terminated in the death of both.
  • The conclave of physicians, detecting their intrigues, frauds, and plots, against their patients. Also a peculiar discourse of the Jesuits bark: the history thereof, with its true use, and abuse. Moreover, a narrative of an eminent case in physick / By Gideon Harvey.
  • American medical biography: or, memoirs of eminent physicians who have flourished in America. To which is prefixed a succinct history of medical science in the United States from the first settlement of the country / By James Thacher ... Two volumes in one.
  • The Panama Canal: to determine whether he was fit to be extradited, two eminent physicians examine the stools of Dr Cornelius Herz, who had fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • A collection of papers, intended to promote an institution for the cure and prevention of infectious fevers in Newcastle and other populous towns. Together with the communications of the most eminent physicians relative to the safety and importance of annexing fever-wards to the Newcastle and other infirmaries / [John Clark].
  • The history of physick, or, an account of the rise and progress of the art, and the several discoveries therein from age to age. With remarks on the lives of the most eminent physicians / Written originally in French by Daniel Le Clerc, M.D. and made English by Dr. Drake, and Dr. Baden. With additional notes and sculptures. [Part 1].
  • The tryal of Spencer Cowper, John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, Gent. : upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18. 1699. Of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chyrurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court.
  • The tryal of Spencer Cowper, John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, Gent. : upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18. 1699. Of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chyrurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court.
  • The tryal of Spencer Cowper, John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, Gent. : upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18. 1699. Of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chyrurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court.
  • An ill physician refusing to let his wife call another doctor. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • Antoine Dubois, Baron Dubois (1756-1837). Lithograph by Charles-Louis Bazin after François-Pascal-Simon Gérard, Baron Gérard, 1803.
  • Antoine Dubois, Baron Dubois (1756-1837). Lithograph by Charles-Louis Bazin after François-Pascal-Simon Gérard, Baron Gérard, 1803.
  • A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Colour woodcut.
  • Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Colour woodcut.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.