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  • A cross in a circle against a grid background with messages recommending an AIDS test. Colour lithograph for the Ministère de la Santé, Luxembourg, 1989.
  • Io. Batis. Portae Neap. De humana physiognomia li. VI. In quibus docetur quom. animi propentes naturalibus remediis compesci possint / [Giambattista della Porta].
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask . Oil painting by C. De Bie (?) after David Teniers the younger.
  • Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: British soldiers climbing down to fetch water from the bottom of a pit. Halftone by André & Sleigh Ld after C.E. Fripp, 1896.
  • William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.
  • Boer War: a busy street scene with gracious ladies offering food, drink and assistance to wounded soldiers. Process print after C. Shepperson after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.
  • Qasr al-'Ayni Hospital and Medical School, Cairo: design for new buildings. Gouache after J. T. Cackett & R. Burns Dick, 1922.
  • Sir Richard Croft. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after Sir G. Hayter, 1801.
  • Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) fruit
  • The preacher George Whitefield standing on a table and preaching to a crowd of supporters in London while he is insufflated by a devil. Etching, 1763.
  • The death of William II (William Rufus): William has been shot with an arrow on a hunt in a forest. Etching by T. Wallis after W. M. Craig.
  • Some members of staff of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, ca. 1915. Photograph.
  • Some members of staff of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, ca. 1915. Photograph.
  • Some members of staff of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, ca. 1915. Photograph.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin, : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same / gathered and made by Wylliam Turner.
  • The muscles of the human body seen from the back and the salivary glands of a dog. Engraving, 1686.
  • Disposal of the dead, under police supervision during a cholera epidemic in Japan. Reproduction of drawing by Meisenbach after C. Fripp.
  • Anthony Goodwin. Oil painting attributed to J. Rawlinson.
  • Boer War: soldiers in packed train carriages receive tea from women and children at Gillitts station. Halftone by C.H., 1900, after H. Paget after M. Ellis.
  • A dinner party: a young man plays the lute while a young woman puts a piece of meat into the mouth of the man at the head of the table. Etching by Vivant Denon, 1793, after G. Honthorst.
  • A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.
  • C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Zu san li
  • Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee'
  • Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with a whip in one hand and a letter in the other, mounted on an ass with a human head. Etching with engraving, 1745.
  • A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A soldier in a lunatic asylum. Lithograph by Conrad Felixmüller, 1918.
  • Goddess Isis feeding Horus, wall relief
  • Goddess Isis feeding Horus, wall relief