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  • Mr. Lambkin at home ill from overindulgence being visited by a doctor friend. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • The British Museum: the entrance hall and staircase. Wood engraving C. D. Laing, 1849, after B. Sly after L. Collman.
  • Leather covered case of trephination instruments.
  • Allen & Hanbury,pate de guimauve - marshmallow - pan
  • Mr. Lambkin giving a speech at his wedding reception. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A young physician feeling the pulse of a young woman, a painting of two lovers in the background suggests her illness maybe lovesickness. Lithograph by L.E. Soulange-Teissier, 1850, after P.L.A.A. Terral.
  • A young physician feeling the pulse of a young woman, a painting of two lovers in the background suggests her illness maybe lovesickness. Lithograph by L.E. Soulange-Teissier, 1850, after P.L.A.A. Terral.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the Painted Hall, with many visitors. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after L. H. Michael, 1865.
  • Mr. Lambkin ill with his feet in warm water being nursed by Mrs. Slops. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology to a mixed audience in his Edinburgh home?; presented as a monkey with a phrenological head. Lithograph.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • Waterproof harness paste / prepared by Richard Hine, chemist, Beaminster...
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the Painted Hall, a fancy fair in progress. Wood engraving.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner showing the Thornhill decorations in the Painted Hall to a family of visitors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after [J. N.] Esq, 1807.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De architectura libri dece / traducti de latino in vulgare affigurati: co[m]mentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti.
  • An operator extracting a tooth. Oil painting after A. Brouwer.
  • Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.
  • Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.
  • Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.
  • Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.
  • Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.