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  • A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.
  • An HIV positive woman with her child representing an advertisement for free medicine and medical care for people with HIV or AIDS as part of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program by the New York State Health Department and New York City. Colour lithograph.
  • An HIV positive man with his partner representing an advertisement for free medicine and medical care for people with HIV or AIDS as part of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program by the New York State Health Department and New York City. Colour lithograph.
  • A father who is HIV positive with his child representing an advertisement for free medicine and medical care for people with HIV or AIDS as part of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program by the New York State Health Department and New York City. Colour lithograph.
  • An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic. Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
  • The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic. Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
  • A woman lying on her back with her legs raised during labour, while a medical professional assists with the birth.
  • Superb virility of manhood : giving the causes and simple home methods of curing the weaknesses of men / by Bernarr Macfadden, assisted by various medical and other authorities.
  • Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A physician lecturing to students about uroscopy, he points to a flask held by an assistant. Heliotype.
  • Rhazes (Rāzī), a physician, examines a kneeling boy who has his mouth wide open, they are in a surgery full of equipment. Colour process print after H. Behzad.
  • An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
  • An excited physician examining a urine specimen and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis, two assistants are mixing concoctions in the background. Mezzotint by J.B. Enzensberger after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Jean Origet (left) and Nicolas Simon (right). Line engraving by A.F.B. Geille after J.-L. Boilly.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • Rudiments of physiology, in three parts. Part I, On life, as manifested in sensation and in thought ... / Edited by Robert Lewins ... with a biographical memoir of the author.
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • The climate of London, deduced from meteorological observations, made in the Metropolis, and at various places around it / by Luke Howard.
  • Outlines of human physiology / By Herbert Mayo.
  • A treatise of the diseases of tradesmen ... / now done into English.
  • Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases. To which are added a few experiments on the vegetation of plants. Part I / By D. Hill.
  • A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to shew under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise; with thirty-one cases that have been ... treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose ... As well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / By T. Sheldrake.
  • A treatise on the diseases of children / [Michael Underwood].