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  • A young, naked man with a wreathed head: back view. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Moscow: people swimming and sunbathing at Cerebrensky public baths. Etching by M.G. Eichler, 1799, after G. de la Barthe, 1796.
  • Two human figures illustrating the reduction of dislocations of the foramen ovale and the dorsum ilii. Coloured pen drawing by G.E. Blenkins, 1831.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • Six cross-sections through a foot. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • The upper body and head and ways of bandaging them. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating the liver?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • An old woman, sitting in the nude. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.
  • A young nude woman sitting: back view. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.
  • Cross-sections of the arm and wrist. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • A chipped statue of a torso. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.
  • A body lying in a Graeco-Roman building, surrounded with vessels and sculpted figures. Drawing.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner].
  • Diagrams illustrating how to set a broken arm. Stipple engraving.
  • An operation being performed on a leg and ankle. Coloured lithograph by N.H. Jacob after himself.
  • Diagrams illustrating how to bandage and set fractures in splints. Engraving by J. Johnstone.
  • A naked child. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.
  • Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, 1866.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • The upper body and head and ways of bandaging them. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • The graves open on the day of judgement; Christ, apostles and female saints look on. Engraving after M. Heemskerck, 1564.
  • Excision of the shoulder joint (?) Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • Six diagrams illustrating different methods of bandaging the body and use of tourniquets. Line engraving by J.E. de Sève.
  • Diagrams illustrating: five bandaged legs (three with different sorts of splints), two heads showing veins, a bandaged head, a bandaged torso, a recepticle with body for curing shoulder dislocations and an eye operation. Line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1830.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.