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  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by F.B. Lorieux and P. Michon after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
  • An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by F.B. Lorieux and P. Michon after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
  • The powers of Europe as alchemists who dissolve the alliance of German princes with Napoleon. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • 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.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Boiling water
  • Vim you see in sizes three, every size saves L.s.d / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Segelyacht / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Segelyacht / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Picknick / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Picknick / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Steamer-vapour water
  • Angels serve Christ with food after his ordeal in the wilderness. Engraving by J. Mariette after C. le Brun.
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
  • Drug preparation, C16 Chinese painted book illustration
  • A naked man with motor neuron disease, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Top, a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia; centre, a coach on a street in Baltimore; bottom left, slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia; bottom right, a slave playing the flute. Wood engraving after E.C., 1856.