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  • Saint Birinus converting the Saxons of Wessex to Christianity. Engraving by W. Walker, 1773, after S. Wale.
  • Four sketches, from different angles, of an Anglo-Saxon skull, from cemetery at Brighthampton, Oxon (Kingdom of the West-Saxons, Sixth to Tenth Century A.D)
  • A wicker man inside which people are sacrificed, surrounded by the principal deities of the Saxons. Etching by Smith after R. Verstegen and A. Sammes.
  • The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes / By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.
  • Anglo Saxon Medical Manuscript.
  • Physicians offering draughts and medicine, Anglo-Saxon.
  • Archaeological burial objects from the Anglo-Saxon period
  • Scorpion and snake fighting, Anglo-Saxon. circa 1050
  • Anglo-Saxon surgery. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Diagrams of Frankish & Saxon remains, namely tool heads
  • Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
  • Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
  • General Town Hospital, Berlin: two floor plans and a plan of the site, with a key. Photolithograph after H. Saxon Snell.
  • Saxon deities after which days of the week were named: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga and Saeter (Seater). Etching after R. Verstegan, 17--.
  • 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.
  • Two surgeons applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points on the chests of two male patients, the senior surgeon wears a pointed hat (?). Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • Sensation of the day : will visit this town two great and startling novelties : Mr. W. Campbell the celebrated young Scottish giant ... weighs the enormous weight of 48 stone 9 lb ... he is accompanied by that great and beautiful sight Miss M. E. Bland the anglo-saxon wonder! A sight all ladies ought to see. Fourteen years of age ... and weighs the astounding weight of 18 stone 3 lb.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, Exmoor Street, London: the exterior. Wood engraving, 1881 (?).
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, Exmoor Street, London: the exterior. Coloured wood engraving by H.J. Crane after F. Watkins (?), 1881.
  • The story of Metlakahtla / by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • The story of Metlakahtla / by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Titlepage to 'Ten Years' Diggings'
  • Sixty centuries of health and physick.
  • Members of the British Association playing at phrenology on board a ship on its way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • Members of the British Association on their way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • A hind standing on a crag in the forest belling with a group of stags and deer resting on patch of grass below. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Members of the British Association on their way to South Africa. Photograph by Mrs C. Henderson, 1905.
  • A man on horseback and a boy with hawks on their wrists. Etching.
  • Paul Luther. Line engraving by J.G. Mentzel.
  • Paul Luther. Line engraving by J.G. Mentzel.