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  • Royal Society of Medicine 1991/92 year planner.
  • An emaciated man, rescued from a premature burial, lying on an outdoor hospital bed. Photograph.
  • An emaciated man, rescued from a premature burial, being helped to sit up on an outdoor hospital bed. Photograph.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: male patient with wounded elbow. Photograph, 1916.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Gangā and the river Ganges falling from heaven, while Shiva waits below to stem the fall with Nandi bull, Parvati and the sage Jahnu. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Acute pathologies, infantile diarrhoea, Chinese lithograph
  • Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.
  • Dissection of the torso of a pregnant woman, showing the internal organs and the foetus. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
  • A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.
  • Three men's wigs on stands. Coloured lithograph.
  • A gun shooting a condom amidst an explosion made of a star bearing white roses and the letters 'safe sex guerilla'; advertisement for safe sex to protect against AIDS by the Safe Sex Guerrilla's. Lithograph.
  • Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
  • Eve is reproached for eating the forbidden fruit. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Geum rivale 'Leonards Variety'
  • Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
  • Honda, Colombia: a wooden bridge over the river Gualí. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Electrical instruments exhibited at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition; including a tramway, an electric boat and an electric chair. Wood engraving by A. Marie, 1881.
  • Geum rivale 'Leonard's Variety'
  • A group of men, one in drag, swimming and playing in a river.
  • A group of men, one in drag, swimming and playing in a river.
  • A spray can of Hexo Globol insecticide in use against pests. Colour lithograph, 1954.
  • Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Lord Kitchener. Photographic postcard by Bassano, 1916.
  • Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Lord Kitchener. Photographic postcard by Bassano, 1916.
  • Two Marines and a young sailor sitting together on board ship. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Two Marines and a young sailor sitting together on board ship. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • The beheading of the accomplices of the murderers of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
  • Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1815, after Quiz.
  • A gin shop: an elegant young woman is selling gin to a group of paupers who are standing in a mantrap; the walls decorated with coffins; Death enters the room dressed as a nightwatchman. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.
  • Two men demonstrating jiu-jitsu, wearing formal attire. Photographic postcard, ca. 191-.