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  • Ming herbal (painting): Dioscorea bulbifera
  • Hydraulics: diagrams showing water pressure. Engraving by Mutlow, 1810, after J. Farey.
  • India:an indigo plantation, an overseer looking on, as others work picking indigo plants and processing them. Engraving, 1778.
  • Lurpak Spreadable : enjoy a free taste : money off coupons inside / MD Foods.
  • A group of villagers sit listening to a health care demonstration: improving health care in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Lurpak Spreadable : enjoy a free taste : money off coupons inside / MD Foods.
  • Composite heads: a florist, a writer, a musician and a barber made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • Composite heads: a florist, a writer, a musician and a barber made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • Sunlight : my soap is my fortune sir, she said / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Sunlight : my soap is my fortune sir, she said / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Express cottage cheese : an Express Dairy product / [Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd.].
  • Express cottage cheese : an Express Dairy product / [Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd.].
  • Express cottage cheese : an Express Dairy product / [Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd.].
  • Express cottage cheese : an Express Dairy product / [Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd.].
  • Express cottage cheese : an Express Dairy product / [Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd.].
  • Express cottage cheese : an Express Dairy product / [Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd.].
  • Borax extract of soap makes washing a pleasure.
  • A message about how AIDS is not spread including illustrations of a woman with a mosquito bite to a person coughing and sneezing; an AIDS prevention advertisement from Zimbabwe. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Stoicism: above, the suicide of Seneca; middle, Zeno and Chrysippus; below, the suicides of Socrates and Cato. Engraving by W. Hole, ca. 1614.
  • Theory of diseases treated with Major Bupleurum decoction
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Advert for Gold Dust Washing Powder
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A naked woman steps out of a bath and dries her feet, sitting on a chair. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, the midwife hands the baby Mary (in swaddling clothes) to her mother Anne. Coloured pen drawing after a painting by B. Vivarini, 1473.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • 5 o'clock and not finished yet : nearly tired of life : a friend suggests "Sunlight" : result! Complete success / Lever Brothers Ltd.