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  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A doctor examining the dials inside a human machine. Pen and ink drawing by R. Lunt Roberts, c. 1929.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.
  • An operator treating Ann Ford, a society lady, with "Perkins's tractors", for her venomous tongue. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1802.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: alembic flasks and other apparatus in a sixteenth-century alchemist's laboratory. Photograph.
  • A doctor applying a stethoscope to a boy's back when the boy expects him to examine his chest. Wood engraving after C.A. Shepperson, 1908.
  • Price list of the Veedee, fitted cases, and of extra attachments designed for special uses / The Veedee Company.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a Roman surgery (taberna medica) in Pompeii. Photograph, c. 1913.