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  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.
  • Leprosy: diagnosis and investigation, physical examination
  • Panels of Heart Exhibition: Physical Diagnosis
  • Panels of Heart Exhibition: Physical Diagnosis
  • Serratula tinctoria subsp. seoanei (Willk.)M.Lainz Asteraceae. Saw-wort (in the USA called Dyer's plumeless saw-wort). Distribution: Europe. Named after Dr Victor Lopez Seoane (1832-1900) a Spanish naturalist and physician who was Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History in Corunna. He attained a certain infamy in that three of the subspecies of birds which he published as new discoveries were in leaflets dated 1870 and 1891 but were actually published in 1894, the discovery of which rendered two of his discoveries attributable to others (Ferrer, in Ingenium 7:345-377 (2001). This plant was described by Heinrich Willkomm in 1899 as Serratula seoanei, but M. Lainz, in 1979, decided it was merely a subspecies of Serratula tinctoria, a plant described by Linnaeus (1753). Linnaeus based his description on a plant with a woodcut in Dodoens' Pemptades (1583), saying it had pinnate leaves. However, that woodcut is of two different plants, and when re-used by Gerard (1633) he pointed out that Tabernamontanus (1625) had a woodcut of them and a third plant all with leaves varying from just pinnate to entire. Whatever, the leaves on Serratula tinctorius subsp. seoanei are very distinct, but while pinnate the leaflets are exceedingly narrowly and deeply dissected, Gerard (1633) writes that it is 'wonderfully commended to be most singular [useful] for wounds, ruptures, burstings, and such like...' It is a dye plant, containing luteolin, the same yellow dye as is present in Reseda luteola (source of the dye 'weld'). Seoane also has a viper, Vipera seoanei, named after him
  • William Salmon, Select Physical and Surgical Observations
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a view showing the pair of cedar trees, and the statue of Sloane in the centre of the garden. Lithograph by H. Warren after J. Fuge.
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a view showing the pair of cedar trees, and the statue of Sloane in the centre of the garden. Lithograph by H. Warren after J. Fuge.
  • The physical and moral condition of the chil
  • A bedside manual of physical diagnosis / [Charles Cowan].
  • Title page of A Physical Dissertation on Drowning
  • Physical exercises for men and women. Colour lithograph, 1972.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Edward Jenner: Diploma of the Physical Society, Guy's Hospital.
  • Physical Anthropology of Semites and Sumerians. Sumerian types. Jastrow.
  • Photograph of Bobby Pandour demonstrating the art of physical culture.
  • Male body-builders from the Physical Culture Society of Montreal.
  • Persian men doing physical exercises. Engraving by C.F. Fritschius.
  • A physical essay on the senses / Translated from the French.
  • Researches into the physical history of mankind / [James Cowles Prichard].
  • Physical culture, the Bruce Sutherland system / by W. Bruce Sutherland.
  • Researches into the physical history of mankind / [James Cowles Prichard].
  • Researches into the physical history of mankind / [James Cowles Prichard].
  • Researches into the physical history of mankind / [James Cowles Prichard].
  • Researches into the physical history of mankind / [James Cowles Prichard].
  • Researches into the physical history of mankind / [James Cowles Prichard].
  • Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam. Opus, cui, in hoc rerum genere, nullum par exstitit / Ex toto terrarum orbe collegit, digessit, descripsit, et depingendum curavit Albertus Seba.