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  • Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus Iridaceae Bugle lily, Distribution: South Africa. Named for Sir William Watson (1715-1787), British botanist and physician, sometime censor at the Royal College of Physicians, London. No medicinal uses. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus Iridaceae Bugle lily, Distribution: South Africa. Named for Sir William Watson (1715-1787), British botanist and physician, sometime censor at the Royal College of Physicians, London. No medicinal uses. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Rehmannia angulata (Oliv.)Hemsl. Scrophulariaceae Chinese foxglove. Distribution: China. Named for Joseph Rehmann ((1753-1831) German physician (Stearn, 1994) who emigrated to St Petersburg and became the personal physician to Tsar Nicholas 1. Rehmannia glutinosa is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for arthritis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
  • Eschscholzia californica Cham. Papaveraceae. Californian poppy. Named for German botanist and physician, Johan Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793-1831). Distribution: North America. Official state flower of California. Contains berberine, considered a potential source for many new medicines, and numerous alkaloids some of which may have mild anxiolytic activity. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • On the influence of abnormal parturition, difficult labours, premature birth, and asphyxia neonatorum, on the mental and physical condition of the child, especially in relation to deformities / by W.J. Little ..., Senior Physician to the London Hospital; founder of the Royal Orthopædic Hospital ... ; communicated by Dr. Tyler Smith.
  • Royal College of Physicians, London. Engraving.
  • Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Engraving, 1709.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Engraving, 1709.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Coloured engraving, 1709.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard. Engraving.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard. Engraving.
  • The Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Oil painting.
  • The Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Oil painting.
  • The Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Oil painting.
  • The Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Oil painting.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard. Engraving, 1668/1697.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard. Coloured engraving.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London, in 1841. Wood engraving.
  • A catalogue of the fellows, candidates, and licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A catalogue of the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard, viewed from the south. Engraving.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Engraving by J. Storer after Whichelo, 1804.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Engraving by J. Storer after Whichelo, 1804.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Engraving by D. Loggan after himself, 1677.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard, viewed from the south. Engraving.
  • The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, MDCCCXXIV / Translated ... by Sir George Leman Tuthill.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Process print by Taylor [?] after C. T. James, 1868.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London. Watercolour painting of the demolition by G.F.B., 1887.