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  • A doctor examining the dials inside a human machine. Pen and ink drawing by R. Lunt Roberts, c. 1929.
  • The nine ancient acupuncture needles, 17th Chinese (detail)
  • Price list of the Veedee, fitted cases, and of extra attachments designed for special uses / The Veedee Company.
  • Price list of the Veedee, fitted cases, and of extra attachments designed for special uses / The Veedee Company.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the war department. Photograph from a negative of 1927.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: diorama of a sixteenth-century lying-in room. Photograph from a negative of 1927.
  • Mengo medical mission, Uganda: (left) two African scientists working in a laboratory; (right) a Ugandan medicine man and an African man pouring out medicine. Gouache painting, 1927.
  • Plate LX. Surgical technique to repair a hernia.
  • Plate LXII. Surgical techniques performed on the scrotum.
  • Plate LXIII. Surgical techniques performed on male genitalia.
  • Plate LXVI. Surgical technique for lithotomy.
  • An apothecary in his shop examines the throat of a young female singer, an apprentice takes notes and other patients wait their turn. Line engraving by F. Bartolozzi after P. Longhi.
  • Plate LI. Surgery on the cavities of the face and throat.
  • Plate LVIII. Surgical technique for the repair of a hernia.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a Roman surgery (taberna medica) in Pompeii. Photograph, c. 1913.
  • A large and evil-looking army physician eagerly inoculates a fearful young man. Pen and ink drawing by F. May, ca. 1918.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of Liebig's laboratory at Giessen. Photograph from a negative of 1924.
  • The Blue/Green Dragon [acupuncture] needle, Chinese woodcut
  • Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.
  • The Blue/Green Dragon [acupuncture] needle, Chinese woodcut
  • Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.
  • Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Italian pharmacy. Photograph.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.