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  • The family magazine: in two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery ... Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick.
  • The course of the veins and the arteries through the body (Table IV), after Eustachius; the arterial system (Table V), after Cowper in Drake. Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen looking into an X-ray screen placed in front of a man's body and seeing the ribs and the bones of the arm. Chromolithograph.
  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen looking into an X-ray screen placed in front of a man's body and seeing the ribs and the bones of the arm. Chromolithograph.
  • Transfer of the body of Napoleon Bonaparte from St. Helena in 1840. Coloured lithograph by J.A. Monthelier after P.F. Lehnert.
  • A woman in a garden with some flowers; in the background God blows spirit into Adam's body; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • The workes ... Containing I. Chirurgicall lectures of tumors and ulcers. II. A treatise of the first part of chirurgery, which teacheth the re-unition of the parts of the body dis-joynted; and the methodicall doctrine of wounds. III. A treatise of all the muscles of the body of man. Delivered in severall lectures at Barbar-Chirurgians-Hall ... / Published in his life time in severall treatises, and now in one volume, corrected and amended.
  • The dead body of Tee, one of the chiefs of the island of Tahiti, in a state of preservation. Engraving by W. Byrne, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • [Review of: On the temperature of the body as a means of diagnosis in phthisis and tuberculosis / by Sydney Ringer. London : Walton and Maberly, 1865].
  • [Review of: On the temperature of the body as a means of diagnosis in phthisis and tuberculosis / by Sydney Ringer. London : Walton and Maberly, 1865].
  • Acer japonicum Thunb. Sapindaceae. Japanese maple. Small tree. Distribution: Japan, North Korea. Can be tapped in early spring for its sugar-rich sap although it is not as abundant as in Acer saccharum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A snake, dark brown in colour with yellow markings on either side of the eyes: two figures, showing the head, and the lower part of the body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • A snake, dark in colour, with two yellow stripes running the length of its body: also includes an outline drawing showing the underside of the tail. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A man shielding his eyes from the body of a dead AIDS victim; advertisement a mourning procession for AIDS patients in Berlin Colour lithograph.
  • A night scene with Tom Nero apprehended in a church-yard before the murdered body of a pregnant maidservant. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.
  • Achilles cutting off a lock of his hair in mourning over the body of Patroclus. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1660, after A. van Diepenbeeck.
  • The manuall of the anatomy or dissection of the body of man, containing the enumeration, and description of the parts of the same, which usually are shewed in the publike anatomicall exercises / [Alexander Read].
  • The manuall of the anatomy or dissection of the body of man, containing the enumeration, and description of the parts of the same, which usually are shewed in the publike anatomicall exercises / [Alexander Read].
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • The anatomy of the body of man: wherein is exactly described every part thereof / ... Published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ... And Englishd by Nich. Culpeper.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.