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  • An amateur actor in drag, holding flowers and a parasol, poses in front of delicately painted backdrop. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Complete skeleton of a marabou stork
  • Liver of a DEN (Diethylnitrosamine)-treated rat. DEN is a toxic chemical which quickly induces liver cirrhosis followed by HCC (Hepatocellular carcinoma, a primary liver cancer). Cirrhosis is an end result of fibrosis, the scarring of liver tissue. Fibrosis is caused by the overproduction of collagen, a component of the connective tissue forming the liver. To grade the amount of cirrhosis present in a liver sample, collagen is made visible using the dye sirius red. Under polarized light, collagen is observed as the golden to red color as shown in this image.
  • Smooth tongue from an anaemic woman
  • Desequilibrios nutritivos y el problema del niño delicado ... : la regulación de la digestión intestinal ... / The Armour Laboratories.
  • Desequilibrios nutritivos y el problema del niño delicado ... : la regulación de la digestión intestinal ... / The Armour Laboratories.
  • Blue.
  • Ha-Torah (Hebrew)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Chinese pulsatilla [root]
  • An Australian lily (Doryanthes excelsa) picked in New South Wales. Photograph, 1882.
  • Joe Huggins, condemned for throttling an old gentleman, is stripped to the waist and kneeling before policemen pleading for mercy while the executioner is rolling up the sleeves of his shirt to begin with the flogging. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1872.
  • Bellis perennis (Common daisy)
  • Port Said, Egypt: a quarantine station. Wood engraving by W. Kemp after J.N. Schönberg, 1882.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Abundant dew
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a male Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Three politicians accused of treason being evicted by the police. Colour lithograph by T. Merry after himself, 8 March 1890.
  • 'Human essence/semen', C16 Chinese painted book illustration
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.
  • All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.
  • Gwendoline Maud Syrie, née Barnardo (later Syrie Wellcome, later Syrie Maugham). Drypoint by Paul César Helleu, ca. 1901.
  • Gwendoline Maud Syrie, née Barnardo (later Syrie Wellcome, later Syrie Maugham). Drypoint by Paul César Helleu, ca. 1901.
  • Gwendoline Maud Syrie, née Barnardo (later Syrie Wellcome, later Syrie Maugham). Drypoint by Paul César Helleu, ca. 1901.
  • Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.
  • A man with a wooden leg pours water into the bowl of a begging woman with two children. Coloured aquatint, 1803, after a painter from Thanjavur.
  • A surgeon operates on the eye of an immoral old man, while the efforts of Time and Minerva to cure his inner corruption are rebuffed. Line engraving after O. van Veen, 16--.
  • A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.