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  • Metals: interior of a copper and brass works. Aquatint by J. Hill after Pyne & Nattes.
  • Dissection of the area surrounding the anus and genitalia of a man, with the muscles and blood vessels indicated. Colour lithograph by G.H. Ford, 1865.
  • Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.
  • Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].
  • Engraving showing the diseased part of a skull
  • Urania. Stipple engraving by P. Bettelini after G.B. Cipriani.
  • C. E. Bade. Lithograph after P. van den Eynde.
  • Pret : passionate about food / Julia Metcalfe, co-founder.
  • World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : London 26-28 January 1988 : use of the interpretation equipment / jointly organised by the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom Government.
  • Pluto [Hades]. Engraving by C. Grignion, 1789.
  • The pancreas and the pancreatic duct. Engraving after J.G. Wirsung, 1644.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, with descriptive and explanatory statements / By Edward Stanley.
  • Hall of Primitive Medicine, WHMM
  • A carriage or bathing machine drawn by a sea monster is driven below cliffs: the animal inside has its tail caught in one of the rear wheels; the coachmen and two other passengers speak. Soft-ground etching.
  • Black Greek drinking cups; left, shallow cup with horizontal handles; middle, tall cup with horizontal handles (kotyle); right, cup with vertical handles. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • The faces of men and women and people at work highlighting that everyone is at risk of HIV/AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • Human body, arteries and viscera, Persian, 1893
  • Hindu deities: Shiva, Chhinnamasta, Kamadeva and Rati. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Indic Manuscript 304, folio 2a
  • Mount Vesuvius in eruption at night, showing the Bay of Naples in the foreground with a sailing boat, and spectators on the opposite shore. Gouache, 1828.
  • A temple (?) on the edge of a lake. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • A polar bear is devouring its prey, a seal, on an ice floe in the Arctic sea while three arctic foxes watch eagerly from an adjacent ice floe. Colour lithograph.
  • Harold Chapman in drag poses with Mark Leslie dressed as a Golliwog, in an act for the Bow Bells. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Hanoi, Vietnam: four seated men restrained by the cangue round their necks are being tried for violent crimes by the tribunal of the French resident; armed guards standing by. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.E. Hocquard.
  • The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill].
  • Kitab-i viladat-i Iskandar. WMS Persian 474.
  • Girls packing medicines, Wellcome Company.