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  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • The temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus: the portico. Watercolour by G.M. Goring, 1911, after A. Defrasse.
  • Dr. Pierce's medicines : Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pellets, golden medical discovery, Dr. Pierces favorite prescription / World Dispensary Medical Association.
  • Dr. Pierce's medicines : Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pellets, golden medical discovery, Dr. Pierces favorite prescription / World Dispensary Medical Association.
  • Dr. Pierce's medicines : Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pellets, golden medical discovery, Dr. Pierces favorite prescription / World Dispensary Medical Association.
  • Dr. Pierce's medicines : Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pellets, golden medical discovery, Dr. Pierces favorite prescription / World Dispensary Medical Association.
  • Chinese woodcut: Correspondences between pulses and organs
  • Chinese woodcut: The eight regions (bakuo) of the eye
  • Chinese woodcut: Axillary abscess
  • Wounded patients lying on stretchers at a dressing station on board H.M.S. Erebus, Monitor, Russia. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
  • Chinese woodcut: Breast tumour
  • Kidney (shen) and Portal of Life (mingmen), Chinese, Ming
  • 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
  • A girl (Akae) with a tumour over her right eye. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 183-.
  • Acupuncture prohibitions for pregnancy, Chinese/Japanese
  • C15 Chinese medical primer: Table of paired concepts
  • Chinese woodcut: Eye diagnosis -- the five spheres (wu lun)
  • The temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus: cross-section showing the statue of the deity. Watercolour by G.M. Goring and E. Kenna, 1911, after A. Defrasse.
  • History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank.