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  • Mellificium chirurgiae. Or, the marrow of chirurgery. An anatomical treatise / Institutions of physick, with Hippocrates's Aphorisms largely commented upon. The marrow of physick, shewing the causes, signs and cures of most diseases incident to human bodies. Choice experienced receits for the cure of several distempers. Illustrated in its several parts with twelve brass cuts.
  • Mellificium chirurgiae. Or, the marrow of chirurgery. An anatomical treatise / Institutions of physick, with Hippocrates's Aphorisms largely commented upon. The marrow of physick, shewing the causes, signs and cures of most diseases incident to human bodies. Choice experienced receits for the cure of several distempers. Illustrated in its several parts with twelve brass cuts.
  • Gerard de Wind. Line engraving by P. Tanjé, 1753, after P. M. Brasser.
  • Mercurial Air-holder and Breathing Machine. Plate at the begining of Research 1: Concerning the Analysis of Nitric Acid and Nitrous Gas and the Profuction if Nitrous Oxide. Fig 1 Represent a section of the machine, which consists of a strong glass cylinder (A), cemented to one of the same kind (B), fitted to the solid block (C), into which the glass tube (D) is cemented for conveying air into the moveable receiver (E). The brass axis (Fig 2, F) having a double bearing at (a, a) is terminated at one end by the wheel (G), the circumference of which equal to the depth of the receiver, so that it mat be drawn to the surface of the mercury by the cord (b) in one revolution; to the other end is fitted the wheel (H) front view seen in Fig 3...
  • Naan bigger, none better : refreshingly different / Bengal Brasserie.
  • Naan bigger, none better : refreshingly different / Bengal Brasserie.
  • Naan bigger, none better : refreshingly different / Bengal Brasserie.
  • Naan bigger, none better : refreshingly different / Bengal Brasserie.
  • An orchid (Brassia maculata): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1814, after S. Edwards.
  • Henry Robinson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, shown in clerical regalia on his tomb. Process print, 1898.
  • Henry Airay, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, shown in clerical regalia on his tomb. Process print, 1898.
  • Sanitatis studium ad imitationem aphorismorum compositum : Item, alimentorum vires breviter et ordine alphabetico positae.
  • A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.
  • In buccopharyngeal infections Dequadin lozenges add up to effective treatment : Sir Roger de Trumpington ...
  • In buccopharyngeal infections Dequadin lozenges add up to effective treatment : Sir Roger de Trumpington ...
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the entrance viewed from the north, when used as a brassfoundry. Wood engraving, 1866.
  • Moses and Eleazar show the brazen serpent before the writhing multitude afflicted with snake-bites. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after P.P. Rubens, ca. 1635-40.
  • Moses and Eleazar reveal the brazen serpent to the people afflicted with snakebite. Lithograph by A. Blanco after P.P. Rubens.
  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • A framed picture falls off a cornice marked 'National Honour'; representing dishonour for Great Britain perceived by the Whigs in the Anglo-Spanish convention on the Falkland Islands. Engraving, 1771.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients receiving their allocation of blankets and cooking equipment. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Moses points to the brazen serpent while his people writhe on the ground, besieged by fiery serpents. Etching by G. Cooke, 1816, after C. le Brun.
  • Moses points to the brazen serpent while his people carry their wounded towards it. Etching.
  • As people collapse with snake bites, Moses brings out the brazen serpent. Woodcut.
  • Moses presents his brazen serpent to the people. Woodcut after Robert Anning Bell, c. 1890.
  • People writhe in pain among the fiery serpents as Moses produces the brazen serpent. Line engraving after F. Fenzoni.
  • A man dancing while playing a string instrument and castanets, with a standing woman. Gouache drawing, 18--.
  • Apparatus used by Galvani
  • Apparatus used by Galvani
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.