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  • Two surgeons amputating the leg and arm of the same patient who is being restrained by assistants. Pen drawing after an engraving, 1597.
  • Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.
  • Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.
  • A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving by F. Sesoni, 1749.
  • Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving, 1743.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • John Best at ye Mace ye corner of Lumbard Street bext ye Stocks Market maketh razors, sissers, launcets, penknives : and all sorts of chirurgeons instruments : also by him are sold fine hoanes.
  • The youthful Christ helps Joseph with his carpentry; Mary and Anne look on. Lithograph by A. Dircks, 1849, after C. Müller.
  • John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
  • A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
  • Dental bur
  • A young woman sits and listens with scorn to a man's declarations of love. Mezzotint by James Wilson after C. Troost.
  • Amputation instruments and apparatus.
  • Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.
  • An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • Filippo Giuliani, a 'water-drinker'. Line engraving, 1680.
  • Surgical apparatus: includes an army medicine chest, demonstrations of a splint for excision of the elbow and an orthopaedic instrument to correct curvature of the spine. Wood engraving, 1850/1880?.
  • The bones of a hand, with the tip of the index finger missing, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • Common sawwort (Serratula tinctoria): two flowering stems and two separate leaves of different forms. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • A monkey poet, in arrears with his rent, is embarrassed when his landlady opens the door to present him with bills. Etching by T. Landseer, 1828.
  • Surgical instruments of the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • Artemisia annua (Sweet wormwood)
  • The harmful effects of wine. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • A fox about to fall into a pit-trap disguised with shrubwood. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin II (1638-1694).
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.