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  • A Chinese physician sitting on a throne (?) surrounded by fruits, flowers and insects. Engraving.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.
  • First edition of Bencao Gangmu; Chinese, 1590
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • The flexor muscles of the arm, hand and fingers, separated from each other and raised through the use of a dowel and a perforated box. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802.
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.