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  • A black child chained to a spiked ball raises his hands towards a rising sun with the rising words 'Asie, Afrique, Europe, USA'; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1997 by the Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2. Colour lithograph by Jeance Beylot [?], 1997.
  • William Cheselden: profile. Line engraving by A. R. Freebairn after a medal by W. Wyon, 1829.
  • A palatial building representing the Academia Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae Curiosorum, surmounted by a coat of arms; two seated figures in the foreground. Engraving by J.G. Pintz, 17--.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Figures practising the fine arts and drawing from a suspended skeleton and corpse. Engraving by C. Cort, 1578, after J. van der Straet.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • Manuel Baldomero Márquez Escobedo. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • Manuel Baldomero Márquez Escobedo. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
  • Auguste Nélaton. Wood engraving by W.B. after Ch. Reutlinger.
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Oenanthe javanica
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Dragon bone
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Damupi plant
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cassia blossom
  • C9 Chinese obstetrics text, C19 re-edition, Woodblock print
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Sesame of Jinzhou
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cardamom of Yizhou
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cluster mallow
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Red cockerel
  • Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers. Woodcut, 1555.
  • Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers. Woodcut, 1555.
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Sichuan honey
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Alpinia japonica
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cinnabar
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Huangqin
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.