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  • M0008363: Letter of thanks from William Ewart Gladstone to Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
  • William Hunter's house, and the Windmill Street School of Medicine: seen from the south. Watercolour painting by G.F.B.
  • William Henry Welch, Sir D'Arcy Power and Professor (Heinrich?) Sieveking at the 6th International Congress of the History of Medicine. Photograph, 1927.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • Doctor Rock, a vendor of medicines, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd at Kennington common: John and Charles Wesley are preaching in the background. Engraving, 1743.
  • Doctor Rock, a vendor of medicines, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd at Kennington common: John and Charles Wesley are preaching in the background. Engraving, 1743.
  • Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
  • Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.
  • Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
  • The morning prayer / presented by Wm. Kirby.
  • The morning prayer / presented by Wm. Kirby.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • Aesculapius and Telesphorus. Etching by N. Dorigny.
  • Aesculapius and Telesphorus. Etching by N. Dorigny.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • The flexor muscles of the arm, hand and fingers, separated from each other and raised through the use of a dowel and a perforated box. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.