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  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being towed from Greenwich to Chatham by tugs. Wood engraving by J. Greenaway, with letterpress and view of St Paul's Cathedral in title area, 1872.
  • Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., regius professor of medicine in the University of Oxford : a memoir / by J.B. Atlay ... with portraits and illustrations.
  • Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., regius professor of medicine in the University of Oxford : a memoir / by J.B. Atlay ... with portraits and illustrations.
  • Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., regius professor of medicine in the University of Oxford : a memoir / by J.B. Atlay ... with portraits and illustrations.
  • An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
  • Sidrophel vapulans: or, the quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket / by the author of Medicaster medicatus, [i.e. J. Young] In an epistle to W[illia]m S[almo]n. With a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurrilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of a Blue Book. By the same hand.
  • As a young man kisses a young lady's hand, another woman shuts the door fast to prevent an older man (husband of the first woman) from gettting into the room. Engraving by S.-J. Petit, 179-, after L. Boilly.
  • Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day / edited by H.D. Traill and J.S. Mann.
  • Camassia leichtlinii (Baker)S.Watson Hyacinthaceae. Great Camas, Quamash. The species was named for Maximillian Leichtlin (1831-1910 of Baden , Germany, bulb enthusiast who corresponded with J.G. Baker at Kew. Bulbous herb. Distribution: North America. The bulbs of Camassia species were eaten by the Native Americans, the Nez Perce, after cooking by steaming for a day - which suggests they may be poisonous raw. They gave them to the American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk, on their expedition (1804-1806) when they ran out of food. The bulbs of the similar looking 'Death camus', Toxicoscordion venenosum have been fatal when ingested by mistake (RBG Kew on-line). Steroidal saponins, which are precursors in the manufacture of steroids and cytotoxic activity has been detected in the sap of the bulbs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Sex & drugs, H.I.V. & A.I.D.S. / written by Central London Action on Street Health.
  • Sex & drugs, H.I.V. & A.I.D.S. / written by Central London Action on Street Health.
  • Sex & drugs, H.I.V. & A.I.D.S. / written by Central London Action on Street Health.
  • Sex & drugs, H.I.V. & A.I.D.S. / written by Central London Action on Street Health.
  • Saint Ambrose barring the emperor Theodosius I from Milan Cathedral . Mixed method engraving by S. Freeman, 1832, after Sir A. van Dyck after P.P. Rubens.
  • "Due galli SIDA" tomato puree : highly concentrated without water ... / S.I.D.A.
  • "Due galli SIDA" tomato puree : highly concentrated without water ... / S.I.D.A.
  • Equinoctial ring-dial signed "A.C. Toblhanhb Mockba" (i.e. A.S. Trinidin, Moscow) undated, 18th century.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 62nd session, group portrait- including N. Cheua, A.K. Cosgrove, J.A. Cruickshank, Gray, J., A.L. Gregg, W.P. Hogg, M.K. Abdul Khalik, E.U. MacWilliam, M. Jackson, Dr. G.C. Low, E.G. Mack, Miss Turner, R.T. Leiper, J.S. Maxwell, Dr. Sambon, G.A.S. Madgwick, E.J. Wood, G. Warren, Dr. P. Manson-Bahr.
  • The death of Captain James Cook: a man is fighting off his attackers with the butt of a rifle, men in a boat behind him are firing rifles at those on shore. Engraving, 1794, by I. Hall and I. Thornthwaite and S. Smith after G. Carter.
  • A girl sits looking very unhappy, with a flower in her hand. Engraving by M.I. Danforth after G.S. Newman.
  • A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.
  • A.I.D.S. : the facts : compiled with the help and advice of doctors / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A.I.D.S. : the facts : compiled with the help and advice of doctors / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A.I.D.S. : the facts : compiled with the help and advice of doctors / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A.I.D.S. : the facts : compiled with the help and advice of doctors / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A.I.D.S. : the facts : compiled with the help and advice of doctors / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A.I.D.S. : the facts : compiled with the help and advice of doctors / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • The present state of Russia, in a letter to a friend at London / Wwritten by an eminent person [i.e. S. Collins] residing at the Great Tzars Court at Mosco for the space of nine years. Illustrated with many copper plates.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 24th Session Group portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, G.D. Warren, T.R. Beale Browne, C.W. Daniels, R.W. Burkitt, J. F. Fitzmaurice, D. Ross Kilpatrick, J. C. C. Ford, A. F. Forster, Q. B. de Freitas, C.A. Godson, F. Grenier, S. Gurney, G. Hamilton, Prof. Holst, Capt. F.H.G. Hutchinson, K. McMurtrie, Miss G. Mackinnon, W.F. Todd, C. Frimodt Moller, Miss C. Wilson, Miss A. Madsen, Capt. J.N. Walker, J. Phillip Ziervogel.
  • Queen Mary I touching the neck of a boy for the King's evil (scrofula). Watercolour by M.S. Lapthorn, 1911, after a watercolour, 16th. century.