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  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.
  • Hittite and Egyptian types of Astarte plaques and figurines deposited in Palestinian houses to ensure health and prosperity.
  • Rome: remains of a room at the baths of Diocletian, including antique sculpture and plaques. Photograph by Anderson, ca. 1931.
  • Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey: Founder's Day dinner, coat of arms, important school plaques and people. Wood engraving by W. Collins, 1883.
  • Alzheimer’s Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain which starts in middle or late life. It mainly affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, where the cortex becomes atrophied. Plaques containing an amyloid-like protein have been found within the cortex on examination.
  • Tooth surface, accretions around bacteria
  • Tooth surface, accretions around bacteria
  • Tooth surface, accretions around bacteria
  • Leprosy: borderline lepromatous leprosy
  • Borderline tuberculoid leprosy: type 1 leprosy reaction
  • Leprosy: borderline lepromatous leprosy
  • Borderline lepromatous (BL) leprosy
  • Linear sebaceous neavus
  • Tooth surface, low power SEM
  • 'corn on the cob' and rods in decaying tooth
  • SEM tooth surface, levels of tartar
  • SEM tooth surface towards gingivae
  • 'corn on the cob' in concavity of tooth cusp
  • Lichen Planus Buccal Mucosa
  • Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune: front door. Photograph, 19--.
  • Men engaged in various activities: walking, jumping, digging, throwing spears, stretching; sequences. Photographs.
  • Favourite home of Alexandre Brongniart, in Bézu St. Eloi, Eure; Brongniart depicted in the foreground, holding a walking stick and a hat. Photoprint.
  • Savory & Moore Ltd: interior of the pharmacy; an upper floor which appears to be connected by a metal spiral staircase. Photograph.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • Medal portrait of Luigi Galvani.
  • Profile in oval of James Hutton.
  • McGill University: McIntyre Medical Sciences Building.
  • Three celebrities: Anthony Perkins (actor), Magic Johnson (basketball player), Freddie Mercury (singer); representing victims of AIDS. Colour lithograph after V. Rytina and M. Vojáček, 1994.
  • An angry doctor in night clothes shouting at an alarmed man. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1774, after H. Wigstead.