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  • A. D. Waller, physiologist
  • William Sharpey(1802 - 1880). Physiologist.
  • Portrait of Claude Bernard (1813-1878), French physiologist
  • Claude Bernard, physiologist / by J.M.D. Olmsted.
  • Mrs Burdon Sanderson, wife of J Burdon Sanderson, physiologist.
  • Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (1857-1916), surgeon and physiologist. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon, ca. 1897.
  • X-ray machine used by the physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon to investigate the mechanical process of digestion, 1896/1898. Colour photograph.
  • Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1878-1968), physiologist and chairman of the Wellcome Trust. Oil painting by "H. Wilson" (i.e. Helen Mary Graham Wilson, Mrs Rosenfield) after Sir James Gunn.
  • Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1878-1968), physiologist and chairman of the Wellcome Trust. Oil painting by "H. Wilson" (i.e. Helen Mary Graham Wilson, Mrs Rosenfield) after Sir James Gunn.
  • Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1878-1968), physiologist and chairman of the Wellcome Trust. Oil painting by "H. Wilson" (i.e. Helen Mary Graham Wilson, Mrs Rosenfield) after Sir James Gunn.
  • Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1878-1968), physiologist and chairman of the Wellcome Trust. Oil painting by "H. Wilson" (i.e. Helen Mary Graham Wilson, Mrs Rosenfield) after Sir James Gunn.
  • Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion / by William Beaumont ; Facsim. of the original ed. of 1833 together with a biographical essay A pioneer American physiologist, by Sir William Osler.
  • M0006455: Portrait of Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935)
  • M0002435: Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917) / M0002436: Portrait of T.A. Smith
  • M0002435: Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917) / M0002436: Portrait of T.A. Smith
  • Group including Paul Bert (1833-1886)
  • Portrait of Sir William Maddock Bayliss (1860-1924)
  • M0006928: Portrait of Petrus Camper (1722-1789)
  • Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease / by William Stirling.
  • Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease / by William Stirling.
  • Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease / by William Stirling.
  • Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease / by William Stirling.
  • Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease / by William Stirling.
  • Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease / by William Stirling.
  • The vivisector asked to choose between head and heart. Photogravure, 1886, after an etching by M.J. Holzapfl after a painting by Gabriel von Max, 1883.
  • A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832.
  • A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832.
  • A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832.
  • XIth International Physiological Congress, Edinburgh, 1923: delegates. Photograph by Debenham, 1923.