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  • Crowds gather at the parade ground of the Honourable Artillery Company in London to watch two hot-air balloons. Gouache.
  • Title page to a statistical analysis of mortality during the plague epidemic in London of 1665. Etching, 18--.
  • Honourable Artillery Company ground, London: people gather in the streets and on roof tops to watch the Lunardi hydrogen balloon going over their heads in the sky, 1784. Process print.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Wood engraving after T. R. MacQuoid, 1854.
  • In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.
  • William Adams, "Bumptious Billy". Photograph.
  • William Adams, "Bumptious Billy". Photograph by J.E. Mayall.
  • Printed Ephemera: Barber Surgeons
  • Sir John Tweedy. Oil painting by A. E. Wragge.
  • Samuel Cartwright. Chalk drawing, 1849, attributed to T. Landseer.
  • Issue of 100 debentures of £100 each : carrying interest at the rate of £10 per cent. per annum / The Medical Battery Company Limited.
  • Issue of 100 debentures of £100 each : carrying interest at the rate of £10 per cent. per annum / The Medical Battery Company Limited.
  • A modern block of flats contrasted with a row of unhealthy terrace houses. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Sir Astley Paston Cooper. Oil painting after Sir Thomas Lawrence.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • Prosthetic legs wearing a pair of trainers. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2012.
  • Medical staff in training in Yorkshire for operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2012.
  • Medical staff in training in Yorkshire for operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2012.
  • Prosthetic legs wearing a pair of trainers. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2012.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches, engraving by Benard, 1779, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645.
  • The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches, engraving by Benard, late 18th century, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645.