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  • Apparatus for Urine Testing? Hick's papent -has Diabetes marked on brass stem.
  • William Smith and his wife Jane, of Enfield, Middlesex, 1592. Brass rubbing, 1846.
  • Tomb effigy of William Bradbridge, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Brass rubbing.
  • Tomb effigy of William Bradbridge, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Brass rubbing.
  • Francis Clopton, Long Melford, Suffolk, 1577. Brass rubbing by F.R. Hawkes Mason, 1895.
  • An Indian musician playing a brass wind instrument. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Makers of brass basins and bowls at work in their workshop. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Richard Notfield, St John's, Margate, Kent, 1446. Brass rubbing by F.R. Hawkes Mason, 1880.
  • Lady Johanna Brooke, wife of Robert Brooke, 1618. Brass rubbing by A.D. Spurgin, 1877.
  • Metals: interior of a copper and brass works. Aquatint by J. Hill after Pyne & Nattes.
  • Sections of a furnace used in the processing of brass. Engraving by Mutlow after J. Farey.
  • South India: boys and young men with leprosy making brass and copper utensils. Photograph by R. Howett, 19--.
  • John Redford, his wife and their six children, of Shere, Surrey, 1516. Brass rubbing by Edward Mortimer Baker, 1881.
  • A man sleeps between Roger Bacon (?) and a musician: a brass head proclaims time present and the past. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Sir Ivo Fitzwaryn, of Wantage, Berkshire, in armour, with a lion at his feet, 1414. Brass rubbing by C.E. Osborne Griffith, 1880.
  • Brass plate on the tomb of the Goodman family in Ruthin Church in Denbigshire, Wales. Engraving by R. Graves after G.P. Harding, 1823.
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • Man holding percussion instruments made of hollow brass rings, containing small balls, played with the hands, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A masseur massaging the arm of a man who is sitting on a low stool, with a leg immersed in a brass basin. Gouache painting, ca. 1825.
  • Brass name plate inscribed, "HICKMAN", presumably a relic of H.H.Hickman. Presumably among Hickman relics lent or given to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum or Library.
  • Brass figure of Jvara with three heads and legs and six arms. Jvara is said to be the god of malarial fever. Probably a Hindu village deity.
  • 4 Stethoscopes. A- small, funnel-shaped, lined with brass. B- obatined from Italy. C- obtained from Italy. D- bell shaped, probably 1850s to 1860s. E- probably Stoke's type.
  • Bulong Miao. A musical scene of the Bulong Miao tribe who belong to the Buyi ethnic group. Two women are dancing while two men play the mouth-organ (sheng) and two others beat a brass drum.