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  • Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Ernest Board.
  • The discovery of quinine, 1820. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 191-.
  • The discovery of quinine, 1820. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 191-.
  • The discovery of quinine, 1820. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 191-.
  • Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.
  • Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.
  • Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.
  • The healing art in pre-historic times. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Vaccination: "Dr Jenner performing his first vaccination, 1796". Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Albucasis blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Roger Bacon in his observatory at Merton College, Oxford. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Albucasis blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Patients sleeping in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • William Gilbert demonstrating the magnet before Queen Elizabeth, 1598. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • An invocation to I-em-hetep, the Egyptian deity of medicine. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Lavoisier explaining to his wife the result of his experiments on air. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation of blood before Charles I. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation of blood before Charles I. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Rhazes (Rāzī), Persian physician and alchemist, in his laboratory at Baghdad. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1912.
  • Ambroise Paré using the ligature when amputating at the siege of Damvillers, 1552. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Albertus Magnus expounding his doctrines of physical science in the streets of Paris ca. 1245. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Mundinus, the Italian anatomist, making his first dissection in the anatomy theatre at Bologna, 1318. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • World War I: a Scottish soldier, wearing the kilt, lying wounded on a battlefield. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1916/1918.