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  • Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving.
  • Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • Sanskrit Delta 82. Jain textile, 16th century.
  • Chinese woodcut: Correspondences between pulses and organs
  • The white Tārā. Distemper painting.
  • Anglo-American research on the human genome, represented by Uncle Sam and John Bull knitting DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Anglo-American research on the human genome, represented by Uncle Sam and John Bull knitting DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Anglo-American research on the human genome, represented by Uncle Sam and John Bull knitting DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Professors considering whether a pair of conjoined twins should be separated after the death of one of them; representing a political discussion in Bradford about the separation of two factions (?). Coloured lithograph, 1868.
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Shen Nong
  • Attributes of Yama Dharmarāja (Yama Dam-can Chos-kyi rGyal-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Yama Dharmarāja (Yama Dam-can Chos-kyi rGyal-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Yama Dharmarāja (Yama Dam-can Chos-kyi rGyal-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • The doctor.
  • Three figures: one without a brain and eyes, one removing an eyeball, and the third covering his face; representing turning a blind eye to AIDS; with an illustrated calendar of events to mark World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph after Zaidi Bin Mohd Salleh and others for Action for AIDS Singapore, 1996.
  • The doctor.
  • The doctor.
  • The doctor.
  • Three figures: one without a brain and eyes, one removing an eyeball, and the third covering his face; representing turning a blind eye to AIDS; with an illustrated calendar of events to mark World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph after Zaidi Bin Mohd Salleh and others for Action for AIDS Singapore, 1996.
  • The doctor.
  • The doctor.
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: ' Salt gall' water
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Grave-well water
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork