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  • Scales representing the imbalance between insulin and sugar in the body for those with diabetes in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A boy with a variety of icthyosis, a skin disease, which in this case resembles the scales of an alligator. Stipple engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1818.
  • Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans. Engraving by G. Scott, 1805, after Bell.
  • New species of man ... : now exhibiting at Mr. Laxton's Rooms, 23, New Bond Street. This young man is 30 years of age, covered with scales ...
  • A baby and a man being weighed on scales: dosing schedule for Artemether-lumefantrine: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • Standing male figure, rear view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • Standing male figure, front view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • Standing female figure, front view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • Standing female figure, rear view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • Standing female figure, side view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes details of an arm and foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • Standing male figure, side view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes details of an arm and foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • The comedian James Spiller is selling tickets under a giant set of scales which is weighing the actor's debts against his proceeds from theatre tickets. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.
  • George Grenville, Chancellor of the Exchequer, holding a pair of unbalanced scales representing his budget, while William Pitt the elder and others mock him and make suggestions for reducing the British government's debt. Etching, 1765.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • Leprosy on the ears and face of an Indian schoolboy; circular inserts show microscopic details of scales on his ears. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson ?), 1921/1950 (?), after a (painting ?) by Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
  • Anatomy of snakes: eight figures, including scales, a fang, the tails of a boa and a columber snake, and the heads of three species, including a rattle snake, all shown with open jaws. Line engraving after a drawing by S. Edwards (?), 1809.
  • Moth wing scale, SEM
  • Perspective scale model of Peru.
  • New species of man ... : now exhibiting at Mr. Laxton's Rooms, no.23, New Bond Street : this young man is 30 years of age, covered with scales, with the exception of the face, soles of the feet, and palms of the hand, which are like those of any other man.
  • Molecular model of alpha-haemolysin, + scale
  • SA/LIS/L.63, 1/8 scale plan of the Lister In
  • Chromatic scale, J. Sowerby, A new elucidation of colours.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Fish-Scale Seat' pox
  • Drawing of a head showing the Harmonic scale in drawing
  • Large scale manufacture of vaccine: Fred Woolhouse and Bill Foster
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
  • University College, Oxford: aerial view with key and scale. Line engraving.