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  • Galen, standing in a glade, looks at a human skeleton on the ground. Engraving by H.F. Rose, 1820.
  • An allegorical figure holding torches seated on a baroque monument; the symbols of the four evangelists above her, and Saint Thomas Aquinas and Galen at her side. Engraving by Jacob Bruynel after A. van Diepenbeeck, 1666.
  • Galen. Line engraving.
  • Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam / ... Edente authoris filio, Francisco Mercurio van Helmont, cum ejus praefatione ex Belgico translata.
  • The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • Galen. Line engraving by G. P. Busch.
  • Methodi vitandorum errorum omnium, qui in arte medica contingunt libri quindecim. Quorum principia sunt ab auctoritate medicorum & philosophorum principum desumpta, eaque omnia experimentis, & rationibus analyticis comprobata ... / [Santorio Santorio].
  • Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.
  • Above, a man studying the entrails of a cadaver as the microcosm, with the macrocosm behind; below, Hippocrates, holding the staff of Aesculapius, and Galen; bottom, instruments for anatomy and surgery. Engraving by A. Santvoort, ca. 1650.
  • A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Les œuvres anatomiques ... / [Jean Riolan].
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Commentarii in Galeni de usu partium corporis humani lib. XVII. Cum variis lectionibus in utrumque codicem, graecum et latinum ... / [Caspar Hofmann].
  • Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory behind a shop, with people at work, the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
  • Aurora medicorum Galeno-chymicorum: seu, de recta purgandi methodo e priscae sapientiae decretis postliminio in lucem reducta, & medicamentis purgantibus simplicibus, compositisque tam veterum, quam neotericorum & chymiatrorum libri IV selectis observationibus et ... remediis ... referti / [Johann Freitag].
  • Anatomicarum institutionum, ex Galeni sententia, libri IIII ... / per Ioannem Guinterium Andernacum ... ; nunc recens ab ipso autore & recogniti, & aucti. His accesserunt Theophili Protospatarii de corporis humani fabrica libri V. Iunio Paulo Crasso ... interprete. Item Hippocratis ... de medicamentis purgatorijs libellus nunquam ante nostra tempora in lucem editus, eodem Iun. Paulo Crasso interprete.
  • Galen. Lithograph by P. R. Vignéron.
  • Methodi vitandorum errorum omnium, qui in arte medica contingunt libri quindecim. Quorum principia sunt ab auctoritate medicorum & philosophorum principum desumpta, eaque omnia experimentis, & rationibus analyticis comprobata ... / [Santorio Santorio].
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • A doctor telling his apprentice how to use language correctly. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1846.
  • The physician as Christ. Line engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • Arbor integra et ruinosa hominis, id est: tractatus medicus theorico practicus in tres libros divisus; in quo sana et morbosa hominis natura ex archeis seu spiritibus innatis ... proveniens ... demonstratur ac simul de rerum principiis ... de usu & defectibus partium humani corporis, de anima, de febribus, peste, venenis, vita longa, & brevi, & tandem de remediis Paracelsicis, juxta consensum et dissensum Hippocratis, Galeni et Helmontii ... disseritur / [Franz Oswald Grembs].
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • Galen. Line engraving.
  • Anatomicarum institutionum, ex Galeni sententia, libri IIII ... / per Ioannem Guinterium Andernacum ... ; nunc recens ab ipso autore & recogniti, & aucti. His accesserunt Theophili Protospatarii de corporis humani fabrica libri V. Iunio Paulo Crasso ... interprete. Item Hippocratis ... de medicamentis purgatorijs libellus nunquam ante nostra tempora in lucem editus, eodem Iun. Paulo Crasso interprete.
  • Jan Lutma the elder, designated as Galen. Mezzotint by J. Faber the elder, 17--, after J. Lutma the younger.
  • Opuscula. Olim discipulis suis publice dictata / quae nunc Johan. Posthius typis excudenda curavit.
  • Idea medicinae philosophicae, fundamenta continens totius doctrinae Paracelsicae, Hippocraticae et Galenicae / [Petrus Severinus].
  • A hunchbacked physician talking to a patient who has a deformed hip. Engraving.
  • Galen discovering the remains of a human skeleton. Drawing by John Thurston.