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  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • "Il n'est que d'avoir la clef des champs" : [Histantin] / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • "Il n'est que d'avoir la clef des champs" : [Histantin] / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • "Il n'est que d'avoir la clef des champs" : [Histantin] / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • "Il n'est que d'avoir la clef des champs" : [Histantin] / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • "Il n'est que d'avoir la clef des champs" : [Histantin] / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • A naked woman brings a cup of tea to another, sitting on a chair. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • A mother feeding her baby water: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Portrait of Bian Que
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 1588/1595, after Christoph Schwartz.