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  • Sioux Indian amulet in the form of a turtle, worn by girls to ward off illness. Said to contain the umbilical cord of the wearer. Decorated in quills. Northern Plains
  • Sioux Indian amulet in the form of a turtle, worn by girls to ward off illness. Said to contain the umbilical cord of the wearer. Decorated in quills. Northern Plains
  • Egg containing unhatched lungworm larva
  • Photograph: Medicine Chest containing bottles
  • Uterus containing a fibrinous polypus
  • Petri dish containing E. coli
  • Pot containing curare. South America.
  • A stone containing spirit-children.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A vendor of lemonade and barley water in Paris is carrying a large drinks container on her back as she walks through the street. Coloured etching with aquatint by R. Bridgens.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Balanced reciprocal translocation 46,XY,t(2;5). This male has a chromosomal disorder. A chromosome 2 and a chromosome 5 have exchanged segments. The cell still contains a complete complement of
  • A crowd of poorly-dressed people are reaching out their hands to an angel who is carrying a container with food in it and others with baskets of bread and canisters. Etching.
  • Supra-renal capsule, containing tubercular deposits
  • Flask containing yeast, water and chalk
  • Graphical visualisation of tweets containing #breastcancer.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A West African witchdoctor with a hat entirely covered with amulets of leather and feathers. The leather is sewn into little pouches, each of which contains verses from the Koran and other charms.
  • Smoking in the Soviet Union: the smoke of a cigarette contains a rocket blasting off from its launchpad; advertising non-smoking by cosmonauts. Colour lithograph after A.V. Koroteev and A.G. Rudkovich, 1988.
  • Arabidopsis thaliana plant cells containing chloroplasts, LM
  • Case containing leather rimmed metal bridged glasses.
  • Liver with a cyst containing acephalocyst hyatids
  • Multinucleated giant cell containing an asteroid, microscopy.
  • Pope Innocent XI's kidneys containing massive stones.
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].