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  • King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.
  • Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (6)
  • Chinese woodcut: Alchemical refining furnace
  • Anatomical illustrtaion: lumbar and pelvic bones, side view
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • Venezuela Gulf Hospital formulary.
  • Handbook to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum : founded by Henry S. Wellcome / Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
  • Handbook to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum : founded by Henry S. Wellcome / Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
  • Handbook to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum : founded by Henry S. Wellcome / Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • Centaurus.
  • Souvenir : The Indian Empire being a brief description of the chief features of India and its medical and sanitary problems.
  • Souvenir : The Indian Empire being a brief description of the chief features of India and its medical and sanitary problems.
  • First page Ehrlich's address to the XVII Int. Cong. of Med.
  • Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).
  • Mesue. Watercolour.
  • International clinics.
  • Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical interest in Chelsea and Kensington. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical interest in Chelsea and Kensington. Coloured lithograph, 1913.