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  • Charles James, seated at his desk with candles burning, contemplating suicide, holds a pistol to his mouth. Engraving by W. Skelton after C.R. Ryley after C. James.
  • Physiology and biochemistry in modern medicine / by J.J.R. Macleod ; assisted by Roy G. Pearce, A.C. Redfield, and N.B. Taylor and by others.
  • Boer War: a busy hospital ward on St. Patrick's day with a wounded Irishman being offered shamrock by a visiting lady. Process print after R. Macbeth after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Watercolour by R. Smirke.
  • An American man reads from a newspaper with amazement the latest news on the Mexican war, surrounded by an attentive group of men. Etching by A. Jones after a painting by R.C. Woodville, 1851.
  • Portrait of Sir Henry Morris, Bart., F.R.C.S., a member of the St. Albans Medical Club
  • A couple walking through a garden dressed in fine clothes are being watched closely by three other men as the woman looks surprised. Etching (?) by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • Specimen : celeberrimis pharmacopoeis Parisiensibus exponendam : die sabbath decima quinta mensis Decembris A.R.S.H.M.D.C.C.III ... Diascordium Fracastorii ... Pulvis Comitissae Kanth [sic] ... Guttae Anglicae Regiae ... Quodquidem ... / moderatore A.F. Boulduc ... conficere tentabit Claudius Josephus Geoffroy.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Sadler's Wells Theatre, with the New River running beside, a smaller view, below, of the older building. Engraving by W. Wise, 1814, after R. C. Andrews, 1792.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers waiting outside a field hospital for examination by the surgeon. Halftone after R. Thiele, c.1900.
  • Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans: with a scene of a soldier falling in battle, and a widow and daughters. Engraving by W. Skelton, 1804, after C. R. Ryley.
  • Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans: with a scene of a soldier falling in battle, and a widow and daughters. Engraving by W. Skelton, 1804, after C. R. Ryley.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient, after recovery. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • The good Samaritan tending the wounds of a beaten robbed man. Etching by W. Cooke, 1807, after C.N.R. Lafonde.
  • Annatto golden butter colouring : Horseshoe brand : for imparting a rich golden colour to butter... / C.R.H.S. & M.
  • Astronomy and mathematics: Samuel Vince reading in his rooms at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, by the light of a shaded lamp. Aquatint by F. Jukes with engraving by J. K. Baldrey after R. C. Chilton, c.1784.
  • On farm land, a young man and young woman turn away from each other in a lovers' quarrel. Engraving by R. Wallis after J.C. Hook.
  • Four men sit round a tax collector and blow smoke in his face. Coloured aquatint,by J.C. Ziegler, 1799, after R. Newton.
  • The R.A.M.C. on parade before the outbreak of war. Note the horse-drawn ambulance of South African type. They began to be replaced by motor ambulances during the first year of the war.
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • Sir Ronald Ross, C.S. Sherrington, and R.W. Boyce in a laboratory at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Gouache by W.T. Maud, 1899.
  • Sir Ronald Ross, C.S. Sherrington, and R.W. Boyce in a laboratory at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Gouache by W.T. Maud, 1899.
  • A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.
  • A horse (top) showing all the fashionable tack, and details of the locking mechanism for the tack (below). Engraving, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Cupiss' Constitution Balls : (a purgative and diuretic ball for horses) : as prepared by the late Francis Cupiss, M.R.C.V.S., Diss. / Francis Cupiss Ltd.
  • Cupiss' laxative balls : (a purgative and diuretic ball for horses) : as prepared by the late Francis Cupiss, M.R.C.V.S., Diss. / Francis Cupiss Ltd.