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  • Plate 3. A skull and removed teeth of a child
  • Face of a man with myxoedema
  • Plate 9. The lower jaw of a young woman
  • Four men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus species). Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Directions for taking Crosby's Balsamic Cough Elixir / James M. Crosby.
  • Directions for taking Crosby's Balsamic Cough Elixir / James M. Crosby.
  • Directions for taking Crosby's Balsamic Cough Elixir / James M. Crosby.
  • Directions for taking Crosby's Balsamic Cough Elixir / James M. Crosby.
  • Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Salt
  • Elephant apple (Limonia acidissima L.): branch with flowers and fruit, leaf and seeds and cross-section of fruit.
  • Asafoetida plant (Ferula assa-foetida): flowering stem, leaves, seeds and root. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1806, after J. Ihle.
  • Olea europaea L. Oleaceae Olive Distribution: Europe, Middle East. Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) regarded the olive as a panacea, curing all manner of cutaneous afflictions from shingles to sores
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - 'hanging corner' boil
  • Goat's-thorn (Astragalus trimestris): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Goat's-thorn (Astragalus sulcatus L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.: branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and sections of inflorescence, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Allen & Hanburys Ltd : manufacturing chemists and makers of surgical instruments.
  • Assorted veterinary instruments
  • Dhak or palas tree (Butea monosperma): flowering branch with fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • James Henry Lambier, "the American giant". Drawing.
  • The breakthrough diabetes has been waiting for : Lejguar.
  • The breakthrough diabetes has been waiting for : Lejguar.
  • Acu-moxa chart: dumai (Governor Vessel), Chinese MS, Qing
  • Vaginal speculum
  • Vaginal speculum
  • Vaginal speculum
  • Vaginal speculum
  • Rockrose (Cistus ladanifer L.): flowering stem and separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
  • Leather pouch containing forceps & other dental instruments