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  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
  • Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.
  • 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.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Three Tibetan anatomical figures. Watercolour, 1904.
  • Three Tibetan anatomical figures. Watercolour, 1904.
  • A woman holding a pitcher. Watercolour.
  • A woman pulling giant aubergines from a tree. Watercolour.
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.