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  • Plaque carved in relief showing a man and snake. Inscription, does not appear to be Greek. Probably reversed as for making and impression.
  • A standing man, full-length back view, with elephantiasis of the left leg and probably scrotum, Fiji. Photograph by F.W. O'Connor, 1920/1921.
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • Tarnier incubator in use at the Maternite, Paris. Probably taken from Berthod, P. La couveuse et le gavage a la maternite de Paris, 1887.
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • M.D. Winstanley: head in wax and framed. Probably 19th century work in 18th century frame. No further particulars of Winstanley known.
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • [1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
  • A snake in the process of swallowing a small mammal, probably a mouse, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • Drawing of huts in a World War II Prisoner of War camp, probably Tamuang, Thailand, part of the Burma-Thailand Railway. By an unknown artist
  • [1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds, looking towards the river. Engraving, probably by B. Cole, c. 1720, after J. Kip.
  • [1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
  • The left and right knee-joints of Frank Burgess, probably a soldier in the South African War, after excision of the left knee. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
  • A snake in the process of swallowing a small mammal, probably a mouse, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • Above, black-figured Greek wine jug (oinochoe); below, detail of decoration showing a man (most probably Dionysus) and a dancing satyr. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Abyssinia: a naked man with elephantiasis probably due to oedema of the lymph nodes in the right groin: three views, front, back and right side. Photograph, 1904.
  • Hong Miao. A woman and a boy, from the Hong Miao (Red Miao) tribe, carrying food while two men are probably on their way to the fields
  • Brass figure of Jvara with three heads and legs and six arms. Jvara is said to be the god of malarial fever. Probably a Hindu village deity.
  • Stethoscopes. A- perhaps Stoke's type with ivory ear plate. B, C, D, -probably all English versions of the Piorry stethoscope dating from 1830s to 1840s.
  • Proportions of the human body: annotated illustrations of the human face, body, hands and feet, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • Original Voltaic pile. Probably made and used by Volta himself. This pile was shown at the exhibition at Como, Italy in 1899, commemorating the work of Galvani and Volta.
  • A selection of text from the Adi Granth. This example was probably transcribed by a Kashmiri scribe in gurmukhi script and used as a prayer book for personal devotions.
  • 5 stethoscopes. A-similar to Truabe's, cf. Krohne & Sesemann, 1879, p.108, no.20. B- Fergusson or Stoke's type. C- similar to Traube's. D- probably French, similar to Traube's.
  • New experiments, and observations, made up on icy noctiluca ... To which is annexed a chymical paradox [grounded upon new experiments, making it probable, that chymical principles are transmutable] / [Robert Boyle].