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  • Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils. Engraving, 1731.
  • Profile of a man displaying a phlegmatic-melancholic temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
  • David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by J. Rogers after A. Gros.
  • David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by P. Vallot after A. Gros.
  • A baroque monument decorated with Apollo holding a lyre and Aesculapius holding a book and a cockerel; a portrait of Johann Freitag the Younger in a roundel on the pediment. Engraving, 1644.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • The Medical Times and Gazette, London: John
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of a grave looking patient, his servant holds a bottle and bowl. Reproduction of a wood engraving.
  • Depression
  • Mr. Lambkin drunk on champagne sitting in a carriage at Epsom with lots of other drunken bachelors. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth
  • Malus domestica 'Court Pendu Plat'
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • A family is about to return from their holiday in a London townhouse. Etching by George Cruikshank after S.K.
  • Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
  • A family is about to return from their holiday in a London townhouse. Etching by George Cruikshank after S.K.
  • Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood'.
  • Sanguisorba officinalis 'Tanna'
  • Saint Jerome in his study. Oil painting by a follower of Albrecht Dürer.
  • An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
  • Saint Jerome in his study. Oil painting by a follower of Albrecht Dürer.
  • Saint Jerome in his study. Oil painting by a follower of Albrecht Dürer.
  • Saint Jerome in his study. Oil painting by a follower of Albrecht Dürer.
  • Saint Jerome in his study. Oil painting by a follower of Albrecht Dürer.
  • Saint Jerome in his study. Oil painting by a follower of Albrecht Dürer.