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  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
  • A physician examining urine. Mezzotint by C. Spooner after A. van Ostade.
  • The great plague in London in 1665 / by Walter George Bell with thirty illustrations comprising contemporary prints, plans, & drawings.
  • The great plague in London in 1665 / by Walter George Bell with thirty illustrations comprising contemporary prints, plans, & drawings.
  • Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia species): stem and flowers. Aquatint, c.1823.
  • The great plague in London in 1665 / by Walter George Bell with thirty illustrations comprising contemporary prints, plans, & drawings.
  • The great plague in London in 1665 / by Walter George Bell with thirty illustrations comprising contemporary prints, plans, & drawings.
  • The great plague in London in 1665 / by Walter George Bell with thirty illustrations comprising contemporary prints, plans, & drawings.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Etching by C. Visscher after A. Brouwer.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle-Walsingham, 1762, after A. Brouwer.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac feigning illness in front of Béline, his wife and Dr. Purgon, his physician, in a scene from Molière's play. Etching by G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.
  • Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
  • A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Line engraving by F.A. Schröder after A. Brouwer.
  • A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Lithograph after A. Brouwer.
  • A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Lithograph by E. Meyer after A.Brouwer.
  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • Johann Förster, a German wine merchant, with his hand on a bible. Engraving by J. Sandrart, c. 1674, after H. Popp.
  • Floral bouquet. Engraving by N. de Poilly, c.1660, after himself.
  • A noblewoman and two noblemen examining some gold produced by an alchemist. Engraving by G. Greatbach after A.H. Tourrier.
  • An elderly alchemist sitting next to his equipment. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.
  • The Harveian oration, 1880 : delivered June 25th / by John W. Ogle.
  • Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his "little animals" : being some account of the father of protozoology and bacteriology and his multifarious discoveries in these discliplines / collected, translated, and edited, from his printed works, unpublished manuscripts, and contemporary records by Clifford Dobell.
  • A flower and stem, possibly of a double poppy (Papaver species). Ink drawing, c.1621.
  • Leonhard Golling, a German brewer, standing by a table. Engraving by B. Kilian, c. 1667, after H. Popp.
  • Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle (?) after J. van der Straet.
  • Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle (?) after J. van der Straet.