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  • Two figures with their thoracic cavity exposed, one dissecting the other (figs I-II), together with illustrations mainly of the heart (figs III-XI) and two of the lungs (figs XII-XIII). Engraving, 1568.
  • Bacteriological researchers. Colour process print after R. Fantuzzi, 1926.
  • Bacteriological researchers. Colour process print after R. Fantuzzi, 1926.
  • Manuel Baldomero Márquez Escobedo. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • Manuel Baldomero Márquez Escobedo. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. Asteraceae Milk thistle. Carduus Mariae. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls it Carduus Mariae, Carduus Lectus, or Ladies Thistle, and Carduus leucographus [meaning 'white writing', in reference to the white markings on the leaves] because Pliny wrote about a plant he called Leucographis although Gerard notes that it would be 'hard to assume this to be the same [plant].' He also queries if it is the same as the Alba spina of Galen. Of the latter he reports that Galen recommended it for all manner of bleeding, toothache and the seeds for cramp. Gerard writes that Dioscorides recommends that a drink of the seeds helps infants whose sinews are 'drawne together'
  • An anatomical dissection taking place in a hall decorated with musclemen and human and animal skeletons in niches. Engraving with etching, 1685.
  • A verger's dream; Saints Cosmas and Damian, 1495
  • 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.