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  • Dr. Hand's remedies for children : pleasant physic, colic cure, teething lotion, worm elixir, diarrhoea mixture, general tonic, cough and croup medicine, chafing powder.
  • Dr. Hand's remedies for children : pleasant physic, colic cure, teething lotion, worm elixir, diarrhoea mixture, general tonic, cough and croup medicine, chafing powder.
  • His Excellency Professor Dr. von Bergmann, the celebrated Berlin surgeon, writes: : "The best means of treatment at present is the Bardella because it can be kept ready at hand for immediate use ...".
  • Facts, for the most part unobserved, or not duly noticed, respecting variolous contagion / [Edward Jenner].
  • Amatikulu, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: a settlement for people with leprosy. Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?).
  • Portrait of Dr. Lorenz Weniger.
  • A newly pruned palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus: close-up of the trunk. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, London: Basil Hood and J.R. Lunn. Photograph, c. 1940.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: two doctors. Photograph, 1916.
  • A newly pruned palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • A bullet in the base of a skull, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A bullet in the base of a skull, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • Letter written by Lord Nelson with his left hand
  • Letter written by Lord Nelson with his left hand
  • New York State Institute: a group of boys with Down's syndrome, standing on some steps. Photograph.
  • A standing man, full-length back view, with elephantiasis of the left leg and probably scrotum, Fiji. Photograph by F.W. O'Connor, 1920/1921.
  • New York State Institute: a group of girls with Down's syndrome, standing on some steps. Photograph.
  • A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
  • A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
  • A standing man, full-length front view, with elephantiasis of the left leg and possibly the right arm, Fiji . Photograph by F.W. O'Connor, 1920/1921.
  • Leprosy on the hand of an Indian man: the palm and back of an infected hand. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson ?), 1921/1950 (?), after a (painting ?) by Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
  • Cosmetic surgery: a man with protuding, fleshy ears: before surgery. Photograph, 1909 (?).
  • Cosmetic surgery: the back of a man's head, showing his fleshy ears: before surgery. Photograph, 1909 (?).
  • Drenurol : artritismo! / Laboratorios: Dr. Laureano Pequeño.
  • Drenurol : artritismo! / Laboratorios: Dr. Laureano Pequeño.
  • Kaifeng Women's Hospital, Henan Province, China in 1913. Photographs 1921-1935.
  • Kaifeng Women's Hospital, Henan Province, China in 1913. Photographs 1921-1935.
  • Kaifeng Women's Hospital, Henan Province, China in 1913. Photographs 1921-1935.
  • Kaifeng Women's Hospital, Henan Province, China in 1913. Photographs 1921-1935.
  • A tropical typhus area: two men stand amidst lush vegetation and tree stumps. Photograph, 1920/1930.