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  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Mouth with large sublingual cyst
  • A surgeon operates on the eye of an immoral old man, while the efforts of Time and Minerva to cure his inner corruption are rebuffed. Line engraving after O. van Veen, 16--.
  • An inhabitant of Buruma Island, Uganda, suffering from sleeping sickness. Photograph, 1965, after photograph 1902.
  • Rama fighting with his sons with the help of Hanuman over a horse sacrifice. Watercolour drawing.
  • Left, a young woman condemned to be burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition; right, a young man about to be burnt alive at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Left, a young man avoiding being burnt at the stake for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition by recanting; left, a young woman avoiding being burned alive by recanting after the judgement. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Left, a man convicted of heresy in the Spanish Inquisition; right, a nun that escaped being burned at the stake by recanting. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Metemma, Ethiopia: soldiers treating a trooper with severe sunstroke. Gouache by W.S. Paget, 1898, after W.T. Maud.
  • Vincente Valverde trying to persuade the Inca to convert to Christianity rather than be massacred by Pizzarro. Engraving by W. Greatbach after H.P. Briggs.
  • Charles Gouldthorpe, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • Charles Gouldthorpe, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • Rio Claro, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Elizabeth Hardcastle, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • Elizabeth Hardcastle, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • An écorché figure (life-size), lying prone on a table: the right arm hangs down below the table. Red chalk and pencil drawing, with bodycolour, by C. Landseer, 1813 (?).
  • An écorché figure (life-size), lying prone on a table: the right arm hangs down below the table. Red chalk and pencil drawing, with bodycolour, by C. Landseer, 1813 (?).
  • A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834.
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Sun Simiao
  • The surgeon Capiomont stitching the ear of general Oudinot at the battle of Wagram, 1809. Watercolour by F. Pils.
  • The martyrdoms of the Bishops Ridley and Latimer: both men are stripped to the waist, tied together to a stake and burnt alive. Etching by Taylor after D. Dodd.
  • Purple, orange and grey streaks. Watercolour by Tonka, 2000.
  • Green, red and orange streaks. Watercolour by Ellie, 2000.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Line engraving by Carl August Schwerdgeburth, 1832.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Etching by W. Unger, 1882, after Carl August Schwerdgeburth, 1831.
  • The three different stages of the torture of John Coustos. Etching with engraving by S.J. Neele, 1810.
  • The Chevalier D'Eon meets bankers in a London office or coffee-house to discuss wagers placed on whether D'Eon was a man or a woman. Engraving, 1771.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.