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  • Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the war department. Photograph from a negative of 1927.
  • Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of Liebig's laboratory at Giessen. Photograph from a negative of 1924.
  • A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
  • A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
  • Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre and sterilizing room. Photograph, ca. 1909.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A barber-surgeon operating on a man's head; representing the sense of touch. Engraving, 16--.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth, holding a bottle of medicine. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1807.
  • Two pieces of apparatus that are used to manipulate dislocated shoulders and jaws back into the correct position, apparently conceived by W. Fabricius Hildanus. Etching by J. Bell.
  • World War One: British prisoners of war at Ruhleben camp being examined for "barbed-wire disease" by a German army officer. Coloured pen and ink drawing by R. Walker, 1917.
  • The physician as Christ. Line engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • Rhazes (Rāzī), a physician, examines a kneeling boy who has his mouth wide open, they are in a surgery full of equipment. Colour process print after H. Behzad.
  • The physician as Christ. Line engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • The physician as Christ. Line engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • Illustrated price list of electro-medical apparatus / K. Schall.
  • Illustrated price list of electro-medical apparatus / K. Schall.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.