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  • Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.
  • A Dutch landscape: fields, a farmer in an oxcart, and, in the centre foreground, a dead tree. Etching by W. Baillie, 1760.
  • A man in Japan with two panniers filled with vegetables suspended from a yoke is accompanied by a woman carrying buckets. Colour process print.
  • Transformations of damp Qi in Chou-Wei years, Chinese woodcut
  • Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).
  • STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda
  • Tongues of fire descend on the apostles at Pentecost. Lithograph.
  • Four female torsos joined at the waist with garden features as heads; symbolising the four seasons in a garden. Etching by T. B., c. 1797.
  • Tongues of fire descend on the apostles (Pentecost). Engraving by Jan Wierix, 1581, after P. van der Borcht.
  • A street barber dressing a man's hair. Wood engraving by W.P.B. Closson.
  • Two young chimney sweeps on a decrepit horse, in a yard; a man is seated behind them, facing backwards. Etching after E.H. Landseer, ca. 1848.
  • Raijin (or Raiden), the god of thunder, receiving medical treatment. Colour woodcut by Kunitoshi, ca. 1884.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • "Don't just sit there, Fred - get a house renovation grant." : If you need an inside lavoratory, proper bathroom or a hot water supply, see about a free grant at your town hall / Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • Single grain of sand, SEM
  • Moth wing scales
  • Moth wing scales
  • Don Quixote with a lance riding a horse attacks a barber. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Qingming water
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Pailou at Dagao Hall, Beijing, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Pailou at Dagao Hall, Beijing, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Diatoms hidden inside a grain of sand, SEM
  • Nepal; Sherpa children at a water pipe, 1986
  • Prevention of traffic accidents in Shanxi province, China. Colour lithograph, 1957.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.