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  • The English physician / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physician / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physician / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - scorpion boil in the throat
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - ear tragus boil
  • Wellingtonia or mammoth tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindley) Bucholz) towering above surrounding forest and person at its base. Coloured lithograph after W.P. Blake, c.1857.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - Snake-Coil boil
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Two naked Sicilian boys, in a rocky setting outdoors. Photograph by W. von Gloeden, 1900.
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - boil on the earlobe
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - boil between the eyebrows
  • A dilapidated hay wain, pulled by emaciated donkeys (Mental and Physical Weakness) is driven by a young man (Torpor) and carries two women in rags (Poverty and Humility) while three women (Fragility, Patience and Servitude) accompany the cart; representing the attributes of human existence. Engraving by Cornelis Cort, 1564, after M. van Heemskerck.
  • Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität / Von Emil du Bois-Reymond.
  • The Last Judgment: the graves open and the dead emerge. Line engraving by P. de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.
  • A man and a woman with a herd of goats sit under a tree holding hands; the man places a garland of flowers on the woman's head. Engraving by C. van Dalen the younger after C. Casteleyn.
  • The Last Judgment: sinners in hell are tortured by monstrous devils as a ferry carries new arrivals to the same fate. Line engraving by Petrus de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.
  • The Last Judgment: the world lies in ruins and sinners in hell are tortured by monstrous devils. Engraving by Petrus de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.