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  • A treatise on the cow-pox; containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject. In Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring.
  • The botanic garden, 1791 / Erasmus Darwin.
  • Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (1582-1642). Engraving by Jacobus Houbraken, 1742, after Cornelis Johnson.
  • Skull and jaw bones, with teeth: ten figures. Line engraving, 1771.
  • Contestants in a chest-expanding contest in London. Photograph, 1929.
  • Wonders no miracles, or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates [sic] gift of healing examined, upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking, March the 7. 1665. at one Mr. Cressets house in Charter-House-Yard. In a letter to a Reverend-Divine, living near that place ... / [David Lloyd].
  • H. Davy, Researches chemical and philosophic
  • Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.
  • AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING: Machine for raisi
  • Britannia pointing to Sanatogen, Formamint, and German colonies in Africa and the East Indies as new British possessions. Colour process print after E.F. Skinner.
  • Sir Edward Hulse. Mezzotint by J. Watson after F. Cotes, 1757.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 25th session
  • Portrait of London School of Tropical Medicine, 29th session.
  • Textiles: a industrial washing machine for fabrics. Engraving by J. Petitcolin after J.E. Armengaud.
  • Three exact pieces of Leonard Phioravant viz. His rationall secrets, and chirurgery, reviewed and revived / Together with a book of excellent experiments and secrets, collected out of the practises of severall expert men in both faculties [by John Hester] Whereunto is annexed Paracelsus his one hundred and fourteen experiments: with certain excellent works of B.G. [Penotus] à Portu Aquitano [i.e. B.G. Penot] Also Isaac Hollandus his Secrets concerning his vegetall and animall work. With Quercetanus [i.e. J. Duchesne] his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • An old man diagnosed as suffering from senile dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from chronic dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from hilarious mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • A horse walking, pulling something. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
  • A dripping blood transfusion bag with the warning 'ensure it is AIDS free' and a pink ticket bearing the lettering 'Certified HIV free'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A gloved hand holding up a bird cage inscribed 'Blood bank' containing the HIV virus cell with the warning 'No escape for AIDS'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a division of Johnson & Johnson Limited. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Queen Charlotte holding the baby Princess Charlotte. Process print after F. Cotes.
  • Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion.
  • John Gregory. Stipple engraving by J. Beugo, 1787, after F. Cotes, 1764.
  • John Gregory. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1804, after F. Cotes, 1764.
  • Sir John Hill. Stipple engraving after F. Cotes 1757.
  • Sir John Hill. Mezzotint by R. Houston after F. Cotes, 1757.