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  • The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.
  • Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
  • Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
  • A wheel-chart (pie-chart), the seven sectors of which show seven different types of food which need to be combined in a balanced diet. Colour lithograph, 1943.
  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, moored off Greenwich, rowing boats nearby. Wood engraving, 1870.
  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, moored off Greenwich, rowing boats nearby. Wood engraving, 1870.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • A woman fast asleep with her head hanging down, a devil is sitting on her stomach and a horse peeps through a curtain; representing her nightmare. Stipple engraving by M.J. Schmidt after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli).
  • Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
  • Empress and court ladies in traditional formal dress on an outing to Kameido plum tree gardens to the east of Tokyo, to view the plum blossoms and write poems about them. Colour woodcut by Chikashige, 1878.
  • Narcissus and Echo. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. Luti.
  • Krishna with Radha and three gopis. Chromolithograph.
  • Superior fluid extract of annatto for colouring butter / prepared by Prosser.
  • Sarah Biffin. Watercolour by Sarah Biffin, 1812.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: women's medical ward or Quin ward. Photograph.
  • A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable. Together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta. In natural births : illustrated with cases / by Charles White.
  • Proportions of the human body: four figures of the Farnese Hercules and the Laocoön group, with proportions marked. Line engraving by W. Grainger, 1788/1795, after G. Audran (?).
  • A physician taking the pulse of a young woman, while an old maid prepares gruel for her. Oil painting by Quirin Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving by H. Hulsbergh after C. Campbell, 1715.
  • The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.
  • A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged / by Joseph Pancoast.