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  • A phrenologist in his consulting room, examining the head of a young man and dictating the results to his assistant while a woman looks on. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1826, after H.T.D.B.
  • The physician as Christ. Line engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • Astronomy: an astronomer in his study, leaning on a planetary globe, while holding a pair of dividers. Engraving.
  • Love me tender, love me... safely... : Your pocket guide to sex / Health Education Authority.
  • Catalogue of new and second-hand school and miscellaneous books : to be sold at auction without reserve, on Friday evening, May 14, 1847 / by Phillips & Sampson, at their book and stationery auction rooms, 110 Washington Street, (up stairs.)
  • A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the American Room showing a reader's table and display case with automatic guide lecture equipment. Photograph.
  • A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a woman who is touching her chest and reading a devotional book. Colour photolithograph after F. van Mieris, the elder.
  • An aged blind and toothless woman holding a vellum-bound book. Etching by W.Y. Ottley, 1828, after Jan Matham after Jacob van Campen.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A woman with a castle on her head traces a compass across a globe while two men crouch over it; representing geometry. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • An alchemist peacefully writing in a room strewn with papers. Engraving by V.A.L. Texier after F. Giani after T. Wyck.
  • Astronomy: an astronomer in his study, reading, while holding a pair of dividers. Woodcut.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a woman who is touching her chest and reading a devotional book. Engraving by M. Hofmann, 18--, after S.F. Perger after F. van Mieris the elder.
  • Astronomy: an astronomer [?] in his study, reading by the light of a powerful lamp, wearing a pair of spectacles. Woodcut.
  • An alchemist in his untidy laboratory. Etching by L. Le Grand after T. Wyck.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as a devil when he asks for his fee. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: part of the Library, c. 1954. Photograph.
  • A man seated in a chair in a landscape, holding an open book, directing a dissection which is taking place in the foreground. Line block after a woodcut, c. 1493.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A schoolroom; illustrating Biblical proverbs on the necessity of the discipline of children. Engraving by H. Goltzius.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.