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  • A woman in bed holding her new born baby. Phototype by Danesi after a bas-relief, 15--.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Woodcut by A. Andreani after G. Fortuna, ca. 1588.
  • Australian evidence on the effect of castration with the (trade mark) "Burdizzo" pincers upon growth of stock : the greatest value is in the condition that stock put on after the operation.
  • Australian evidence on the effect of castration with the (trade mark) "Burdizzo" pincers upon growth of stock : the greatest value is in the condition that stock put on after the operation.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
  • Simeon holds the infant Jesus in his arms. Etching by Rembrandt, ca. 1639.
  • Johann Gottfried Matthes (Mathes), a "natural healer", taking the pulse of a patient suffering from the dropsy. Etching, 1784.
  • While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797.
  • Ioannis Riolani filii, origine et ordine Parisiensis, consiliarii medici regis et eiusdem in Academia Parisiensi anatomes & pharmaciae professoris, Anthropographia ; et Osteologia : omnia recognita, triplò auctiora & emendatiora ex proprijs ac nouis cogitationibus & obseruationibus : cum duplici indice.
  • Ioannis Riolani filii, origine et ordine Parisiensis, consiliarii medici regis et eiusdem in Academia Parisiensi anatomes & pharmaciae professoris, Anthropographia ; et Osteologia : omnia recognita, triplò auctiora & emendatiora ex proprijs ac nouis cogitationibus & obseruationibus : cum duplici indice.
  • Ioannis Riolani filii, origine et ordine Parisiensis, consiliarii medici regis et eiusdem in Academia Parisiensi anatomes & pharmaciae professoris, Anthropographia ; et Osteologia : omnia recognita, triplò auctiora & emendatiora ex proprijs ac nouis cogitationibus & obseruationibus : cum duplici indice.
  • Episodes in the life of gYu-thog Yon-tan mGon-po (Yuthok) and his ancestors. Distemper painting by Chundu, 1970.
  • Nine posters promoting the benefits of sexual abstinence and warnings about the importance of condoms and safe sex by the National AIDS Stategy, Health Canada. Lithograph.
  • Saint Christopher. Woodcut attributed to W.Y. Ottley.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • A quack-doctor examining a urine flask. Oil painting.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Steps in producing a proton CT of a human phantom head
  • Newly emerging infectious diseases: patients in hospital. Relief print by Eric Avery, 2000.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • A paralyzed woman being transported along the street in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Théodore Gericault, 1821.
  • 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.
  • An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.