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  • Men dancing in front of Captain Cook and members of his crew, on the island of Lifuka (Tonga). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1782.
  • Women dancing in front of Captain Cook and members of his crew, on the island of Lifuka (Tonga). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1774, after J. Webber, ca. 1782.
  • Women dancing in front of Captain Cook and members of his crew, on the island of Lifuka (Tonga). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1774, after J. Webber, ca. 1782.
  • A man on his deathbed surrounded by several members of the clergy, a physician is in the background examining a urine flask. Process print.
  • John Caius, master of Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge, 1559-1573 : a biographical sketch written in commemoration of the Four-hundredth anniversary of his birth celebrated on the 6th day of October, 1910.
  • John Caius, master of Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge, 1559-1573 : a biographical sketch written in commemoration of the Four-hundredth anniversary of his birth celebrated on the 6th day of October, 1910.
  • Reliquiae diluvianae; or, observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge / By the Rev. William Buckland.
  • Lectures on the materia medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M.D., professor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Now published by permission of the author, and with many corrections from the collation of different manuscripts by the editors.
  • Lectures on the materia medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M.D., professor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Now published by permission of the author, and with many corrections from the collation of different manuscripts by the editors.
  • Lectures on the materia medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M.D., professor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Now published by permission of the author, and with many corrections from the collation of different manuscripts by the editors.
  • The Virgin Mary seated on the lap of Saint Anne lifts up the infant Christ in order to place him on a wooden structure that Joseph has built for him. Process print after a drawing attributed to a member of the Roman school.
  • The Virgin Mary seated on the lap of Saint Anne lifts up the infant Christ in order to place him on a wooden structure that Joseph has built for him. Process print after a drawing attributed to a member of the Roman school.
  • A travelling barber shaving a man in a makeshift tent; on the right three members of the clergy are talking; on the left a seated man is smoking a pipe. Coloured lithograph after G. Dura.
  • Vishnu: a major Hindu deity, the preserver of the universe, with four arms, holding a conch, mace and discus. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • Leonardo da Vinci on his deathbed, at Cloux in 1519, with François I and members of the royal household in attendance. Engraving by Ch. Preisel after J. Schrader.
  • The concluding task of the disciples of homoeopathy: an address, delivered to ... the British Homoeopathic Association; together with a report of proceedings, connected with the formation of a London Homoeopathic Hospital, [and address on the transference of the future energies of the members of the British Homoeopathic Association to the maintenance of a London Homoeopathic Hospital] / [Marmaduke B. Sampson].
  • Seamen's Hospital for infectious diseases in Jurujuba, Rio de Janeiro; a young male plague patient lying on a bed, being treated by members of the medical team. Photograph, 1904/1911.
  • Leonardo da Vinci on his deathbed, at Cloux in 1519, with François I and members of the royal household in attendance. Mezzotint by J. Scott, 1845, after W. Fisk.
  • Seamen's Hospital for infectious diseases in Jurujuba, Rio de Janeiro; a male plague patient lying on a bed being treated by a member of the medical team. Photograph, 1904/1911.
  • The double-headed eagle, representing the Holy Roman Empire, stands on a bobbin holding in its wings the outer sphere of the universe showing the elements of time from which the world is made: months, days, planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. Engraving by P. Miotte.
  • Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis : a course of twenty eight lectures delivered at the University of Vienna / by Sigmund Freud ; authorized English translation by Joan Riviere ; with preface by Ernest Jones.
  • Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, with members of the royal family and the royal household in attendance, 14 December 1861. Lithograph by W.L. Walton after Oakley, c.1865.