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  • Parker's Tonic : the great health and strength restorer : cures coughs, consumption, asthma by rejuvenating the blood / Hiscox & Co.
  • Parker's Tonic : the great health and strength restorer : cures coughs, consumption, asthma by rejuvenating the blood / Hiscox & Co.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Death dressed as a fine gentleman stands on a tombstone.Lithograph.
  • "Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.
  • "Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.
  • Edward Burell, a very old man. Engraving by Leclerc after T.H. Hull, 1772.
  • Edward Burell, a very old man. Engraving by Leclerc after T.H. Hull, 1772.
  • Two men are standing together with a boy, one of the men has a whip in his hand and the other is pointing towards the boy . Colour lithograph.
  • Isaac Gosset, wearing a coat and hat, has a cane in one hand and a book under his arm. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • Nine vignettes advertising uses of Insecticide Vicat. Colour line block, ca. 1880.
  • A young man returning from the hunt; representing the season spring. Engraving after Joachim von Sandrart I, ca. 1700.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Moutparts from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • Malus domestica 'Court Pendu Plat'
  • A seated man in front of a chamber pot which is emitting bubbles, a group of people stand behind him; representing Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle's involvement with Mrs. Clarke. Coloured etching, 1809.
  • Illustration of man with Beard
  • Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Dan Leno as "Mother Goose".
  • Dan Leno as "Mother Goose".
  • Gentiana asclepiadea L. Gentianaceae. Gentian. Perennial herb. Distribution. Southern Europe and Caucasus. Named after Gentius, King of Illyria (the western Balkan Peninsula) in 181–168 BC. Gentius had a powerful navy of 270 warships (lembi) and like most kings of this era he fought constant wars, fighting with the Romans against Macedonia, and then changing sides only to be defeated and brought captive to Rome in 168 BC
  • Thomas Thorne in character as a barber shaving a man. Process print, ca. 1886.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.