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  • English hospital in Beira, Mozambique: staff, patients and the Lady Superintendent, Mrs. Goodman. Ink wash and gouache drawing by F. C. Dickinson, 1901, after E. Watts.
  • Edward Jenner, dressed in antique robes, vaccinates a baby on its mother's lap, shaded by a tree; around, a cow, cowherd and nurse. Sepia wash drawing, 1820.
  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Wash drawing with gouache by H.M. Paget after Reinhold Thiele, 1900.
  • Rome, the Spanish Steps: a woman and a boy looking at a male dwarf standing at the foot of the steps. Wash drawing by C.L., 180-.
  • Two Chinese men stand by a shop window while opium smokers sit on the terrace above. Pencil drawing with sepia wash by W. J. Bellairs, 19th century.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.
  • Écorché figure with right leg bent, holding foot behind him, and detail of a head and neck. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Church of St. Bartholomew the Great and surrounding area; a building which is being used as a warehouse. Pen and ink drawing with wash by C.M.J. Whichelo, 1803.
  • Standing skeleton, seen from the side, resting right elbow on a pedestal, with left hand resting on a skull. Pen and ink wash drawing by J. Mallcott after A. Vesalius, 1796.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A man leaning to the right, gripping a tree trunk, seen from behind. Ink wash painting by C.E. Stölzel, 1820/1837(?).
  • A bird with flowers in a meadow. Ink and wash painting.
  • Two figures of the human head in profile: (left) écorché, (right) skull. Ink and sepia wash painting by A.V.A., 1860.
  • A countrywoman is telling the fortune of a young artist at the entrance to a chapel; two other artists walk past on the right; five paintings on the wall. Drawing by B. Pinelli, 1811.
  • A reindeer in a landscape. Ink and wash painting on paper.
  • Bones of the leg and thigh. Drawing, ca. 1800.
  • Two ducks in a landscape with bamboo. Ink and wash painting.
  • Two figures of the human head in profile: (left) écorché, (right) skull. Ink and sepia wash painting by A.V.A., 1860.
  • Skull, pelvic bones and bones of the arm. Drawing, ca. 1800.
  • Two figures of the human head in profile: (left) écorché, (right) skull. Ink and sepia wash painting by A.V.A., 1860.
  • World War I: orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps attending to the wounded. Watercolour by D. MacPherson, 1917.
  • A man brought on a bier before an altar. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • A body lying in a Graeco-Roman building, surrounded with vessels and sculpted figures. Drawing.
  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.
  • A man's body receiving the ministrations of a healer. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • Tibet: Kamba Bombo warns Sven Hedin not to proceed further south towards Lhasa. Drawing by F.C. Dickinson, 1902, after Sven Hedin.
  • A barber-surgeon for dogs in Paris. Drawing by L. Choquet, 18--.
  • A man kneeling before an altar and receiving the sacrament from a priest. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • Jacob Bobart. Ink wash after D. Loggan.
  • Michiel Boudewyns. Drawing by A. van Diepenbeeck, 1664.