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  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • A country vicar visiting a family where a child has been suffering from scarlet fever. Wood engraving after C. Shepperson.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • An old beggar with a wooden leg moves with the aid of two crutches and holds his hat in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • A working class patient misunderstanding his doctor's diagnosis of acne as the illness being caused by his having been to Hackney. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a food shop interior with Malay staff, where an outbreak of typhus occurred. Photograph, 1915/1925.
  • Just published, (price 2 s.) curiously engraved, and printed on a sheet and half of fine elephant paper : a new method of representing the general geography of solar eclipses, exemplified in a specimen of that which is to happen on the 18th of February next.
  • Just published, (price 2 s.) curiously engraved, and printed on a sheet and half of fine elephant paper : a new method of representing the general geography of solar eclipses, exemplified in a specimen of that which is to happen on the 18th of February next.
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: busy street scene showing the K. Mohamed Kassim eating house where a case of typhus occurred. Photograph, 1915/1925.
  • The poet P.J. Béranger at the age of twenty sits on the bed in his garret while his girfriend Lisette covers the window with a shawl in the lack of a curtain. Engraving by C.L.V. Mauduit, 1847, after H. Pauquet.
  • Indian method of surgical restoration of the nose. 1764.
  • Galileo Galilei. Wood engraving by L. Dumont after H. Rousseau.
  • Canine lungs showing anthracosis (carbon accumulation)
  • Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL): multiple lesions
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: an arcade of shops with a road sweeper at work in the street. Photograph, 1915/1925.
  • The recently completed brick buildings of Ginza street, Tokyo. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu.
  • Using a poster to promote breast feeding, India
  • The Tower House, Bedford Park estate in Chiswick, London. Colour lithograph by M. Trautschold, 1882.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : Van Houten's stands for the highest quality in cocoa.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : Van Houten's stands for the highest quality in cocoa.
  • Children caring for plants in a school garden, southern India
  • Tick on Eyelid
  • Interior of the mosque of Sultan El Ghoree, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Interior of the mosque of Sultan El Ghoree, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Deer tick embedded in skin of leg.
  • Mosquito (Anopheles stephensi)
  • Scales on a mosquito leg (Anopheles stephensi)
  • A mother looks forlornly at her new baby in her husband's arms: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Council of Nigeria , ca. 1993.