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  • An episode in the novel Niccolò de' Lapi. by Massimo D'Azeglio: a massacre in a church during the Sack of Rome is interrupted by the arrival of the soldier of fortune Fanfulla da Lodi. Wood engraving by A. Centenari and G. Sabbatini after R. Venturi.
  • 'Aunt Lucy' (Ellisia nyctelea (L.) L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments and a detailed description. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Light for the blind : a history of the origin and success of Moon's system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind / by William Moon, LL.D., F.R.G.S.
  • Fat particles from the kidneys of a large sheep and some viewed with the aid of a microscope (fig. 1, a-d; e-h; i-m) (illustrations to entry on Adeps); human allantois of twins, in two views (figs 2-3), and an allantois of a small aborted foetus (fig. 4) (illustrations to entry on Allantois) Etching by G. Bickham after himself, 1743.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine (10th Session) group portrait including Sir Patric Manson, M.C. Blair, R.F. de Boissiere, C.W. Daniels, A.H. Davies, J.T. Hancock O. Galgey, and E. Da Cunha, G. Hungerford, Sir Francis Lovell, J. Lunn, G. Lecesne, W.S. Milne, T. Hood, M. Sandeman, D. Steel, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Charles and Robert the lab assistants
  • A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers; wherein, besides their appearances and manner of cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explain'd. Together with an application of the same theory to hectick fevers: and an essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine / [By G.C].
  • Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
  • Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
  • Mercurial Air-holder and Breathing Machine. Plate at the begining of Research 1: Concerning the Analysis of Nitric Acid and Nitrous Gas and the Profuction if Nitrous Oxide. Fig 1 Represent a section of the machine, which consists of a strong glass cylinder (A), cemented to one of the same kind (B), fitted to the solid block (C), into which the glass tube (D) is cemented for conveying air into the moveable receiver (E). The brass axis (Fig 2, F) having a double bearing at (a, a) is terminated at one end by the wheel (G), the circumference of which equal to the depth of the receiver, so that it mat be drawn to the surface of the mercury by the cord (b) in one revolution; to the other end is fitted the wheel (H) front view seen in Fig 3...
  • Marytje Jansdr van Rosenburg, the mother of Gerard Dou, winding her bobbin, with a coat of arms below. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 1755, after G. Dou.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 27th Session.
  • A standing écorché figure, seen from the front, showing the third layer of the muscles. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • Interior of the Capella della Croce on Mount Verna; with a painting of Saint Francis on the altar. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • Interior of the church of the Stigmata on Mount Verna; with a painting of the Crucifixion. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • The muscles of the human body, fourth layer, seen from the front. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1903-1904.
  • Alaska: an Inuit medicine man wearing furs, a mask and oversized model hands, standing on the porch of a wooden building with a sick boy. Photograph, 19--.
  • John Wesley: he visits his mother's grave in Bunhill Fields, London. Aquatint by G. Hunt after W. Lee.
  • Two men walking along a path on mount La Verna towards a sanctuary. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • Two men walking along a path on mount La Verna towards a sanctuary. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • Muscles and bones of the head and neck. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • Three French army officers of the reign of Louis XVI in military dress: the inspectors of doctors, surgeons and the barracks. Coloured lithograph by G. David, 1854, after A. de Marbot.
  • Three French army officers of the reign of Louis XVI in military dress: the inspectors of doctors, surgeons and the barracks. Coloured lithograph by G. David, 1854, after A. de Marbot.
  • William Harvey. Oil painting by G. Hillyard Swinstead, 1919, after C. Johnson.
  • Buildings of the church and monastery of Mount Verna. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • The interior of the smaller church on Mount Verna; decorated with paintings of the life of Christ: birth, descent from the cross and the ascension. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • Giuseppe Giorgi. Line engraving by A. Hercolani di Forlì, 1825, after L. Massa.
  • Interior of the chapel of Saint Sebastian on Mount Verna; with a painting of Sebastian pierced by arrows. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • The front of the smaller church and the main entrance of the monastery of Mount Verna. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • The front of the smaller church and the main entrance of the monastery of Mount Verna. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.