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  • M0007949: Illustration of Der "Laxierkalender", 1457
  • M0007183: Manuscript illustration of blood letting
  • M0007949: Illustration of Der "Laxierkalender", 1457
  • M0007949: Illustration of Der "Laxierkalender", 1457
  • African witch doctor cupping a patient, Wide World photograph
  • Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.
  • Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.
  • Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.
  • Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.
  • Doctor Jeremy Snob / written by J.G. Maxwell.
  • Doctor Jeremy Snob / written by J.G. Maxwell.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • A. Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica
  • Hindi Manuscript 191, fols. 37 verso 38 rect
  • A surgeon on the battlefield. Process print after C. Maurer, 1594.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1824.
  • A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.
  • A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.
  • An allegory of surgery. Engraving by R. Benard after B.L. Prevost, 17--.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • Surgery: a doctoral candidate defending a thesis in surgery at the Académie Royale de Chirurgie, Paris. Etching by P.F. Tardieu after C. Eisen, 1751.
  • Allegory of surgery. Engraving with etching by B. L. Prevost.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A young man returning from the hunt; representing the season spring. Engraving after Joachim von Sandrart I, ca. 1700.
  • A village barber-surgeon standing in front of his shop, holding a razor and a lancet; in the distance are the village stocks. Coloured etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.