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  • The plague in Leiden in 1574: a doctor examines a urine flask surrounded by the ill, the dying and the dead. Line engraving.
  • Les Delices de Leide, Pieter van der Aa, 1712
  • Open hands, fragments of glazed pottery.
  • Enteric fevers and inoculation in the French Army during the Great War : 1914-1918.
  • École de Médecine, Paris. Lithograph.
  • Angels venerating a monstrance containing an image of the lamb on the cross. Engraving.
  • The execution of rebels during the Rebellion in Naples and Sicily in 1647. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, with engraving by J. Aliamet, 1781.
  • Spanish amulet; shells.
  • Glass, milky beads, fig-hands and beads.
  • A priest performing a ceremony in a temporary chapel on a ship housing the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lithograph by J. Arnout.
  • Catafalque in the temporary chapel in the Eglise des Invalides in Paris housing the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte during the funeral ceremonies. Lithograph by J. Arnout.
  • A dog groomer in Paris holding a large pair of shears in one hand, a poodle under his arm, standing on the Seine embankment. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A dog groomer in Paris holding a large pair of shears in one hand, a poodle under his arm, standing on the Seine embankment. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A man and a woman lying in swimsuits within a condom packet within a swimming pool representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé, Division de la Médicine Préventive. Colour lithograph.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.
  • A woman patient at a spa is told by her doctor that the treatment for her fertility might be helped by the presence of a 'diverting friend' - i.e. him. Lithograph by M. Stephane, c. 1896.
  • dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Magzor Palden Lhamo), a Tibetan demon goddess riding on a mule. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, lies in bed as a physician takes his pulse to determine whether he is seriously ill. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The plague of the Israelites. Engraving by E.G. Petit, 172-, after P. Mignard.
  • The plague of the Israelites. Engraving by E.G. Petit, 172-, after P. Mignard.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Engraving by J. Bein, 1842, after Raphael (?).
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Engraving by J. Bein, 1842, after Raphael (?).
  • Two dwarfs with hunting gear; representing the easy life of game hunting. Coloured etching by M. Engelbrecht, after 1715.
  • A labourer asks a gentleman for his wages so that he may get drunk; both represented as dwarfs. Coloured etching after M. Engelbrecht, 1715.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • Part of the Louvre which was built during the reign of Louis XIII, seen from the later Cour Carrée. Etching.
  • Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford. Coloured stipple engraving by B. Roger after H. Rath.
  • Petrus Camper. Stipple engraving by B. Roger, 1803, after R. Vinkeles.