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  • Boer War: a military hospital building at Bloemfontein, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. Mayer.
  • Boer War: fever patients in a ward at the military hospital at Bloemfontein, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. Mayer.
  • People rowing on a river overlooked by a large tree; representing May. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • A man brings his young wife to a natural philosopher's establishment so that she may receive electric stimulation. Lithograph by C. Motte after J. Madou.
  • A man brings his young wife to a natural philosopher's establishment so that she may receive electric stimulation. Lithograph by C. Motte after J. Madou.
  • A woman (May) leads a man (January) under a tree in which there is somone hiding and some onlookers are pointing at the scene. Engraving by C. Mosley after S. Wale.
  • A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • Equinoctial ring-dial signed "A.C. Toblhanhb Mockba" (i.e. A.S. Trinidin, Moscow) undated, 18th century. One side of instrument showing inscriptions on dials (some of numerical inscriptions and the names of the signs of the Zodiac are duplicated in Arabic, using Abjad for the numerals) also the calender scale which may compensate for the equation of time.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 13th sessionGroup Portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, H.F. Conyngham, Dr. Crombie, M. F. Ellis, L. Clifford, W.F. Holmes, A.D. Humphry, Dr. G.C. Low , G. Loader, J.E. Mitchell, J.F.G. Mayer, Dr. Ross, D. Steel, P. Rees, E.H. Read, G.R. Ruata, Major Wilson, W.J. Radford, G. Warren, and Robert (lab assistant).
  • The general state of medical and chirurgical practice exhibited; shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous ... And more rational ... methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, etc., recommended. To which are added a great number of cases and cures / [James Graham].
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 27th Session.
  • Statuette of Aesculapius excavated at Homs.
  • Mémoire adressé au Congrès de Rastatt concernant la petite vérole / Johann Christian Wilhelm Juncker.
  • Mémoire adressé au Congrès de Rastatt concernant la petite vérole / Johann Christian Wilhelm Juncker.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 23rd session
  • Eno's "Fruit Salt" : May, 1938.
  • Four men watch, some holding their noses, as a man vomits; representing the sense of smell. Pen and ink drawing by P. Boone, 1651.
  • An operator pulling a tooth; representing the sense of touch. Pen and ink drawing by P. Boone, 1649.
  • A major discussing medicine with two doctors. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake). Also known as 'May apple'.
  • Florence Nightingale. Stipple engraving by C. Cook.
  • Section of a testicle removed from a man suffering from tertiary syphilis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • Allium sativum (Garlic)
  • Diseased, swollen fingertip. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • Episode in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle": a man with a barber's bowl beneath his chin is about to be clubbed by a knight in armour; a man stands immediately behind him, to the left is a seated couple, to the right a man who has been knocked down, and in the foreground the audience looks on. Etching by C. Grignion after M. Rooker.
  • A man weeping. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.