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  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • An old woman is reading a letter out to a man and a young woman around her chair. Mezzotint, 1837, by H. Dawe after W. Thomas.
  • The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].
  • The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].
  • Thomas Denman. Stipple engraving.
  • A figure of Hercules with a sketch of a castle. Pen and ink drawing by T. Rayner.
  • A diseased penis showing symptoms of diptheritic phagedena. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • Old St. Thomas's Hospital: a cadaver, a skull, bones of the lower leg and foot, and two bell-jars on stands. Engraving by A. R. Freebairn after a medallion by W. Wyon, 1829.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the grant of arms and motto. Coloured lithograph after J. Anstis.
  • A diseased penis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • A large vehicle (Phoebus's cart), on which is an electrical generator, being pulled along by winged horses with light bulbs on their heads: electricity sweeps all before it. Wood engraving by Swain, 1881, after J. Tenniel.
  • Diseased skin and sores on the arms of a man. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1850.
  • An infected open wound on the outer thigh of a man suffering from creeping or serpiginous phagedena. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • Diseased tissue and swellings in the groin area and thighs of a man. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • A diseased penis showing symptoms of gangrenous chancre of the pubis. Watercolour with chalk by C. D'Alton, 1866.
  • A severely diseased penis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1872.
  • A diseased penis, showing symptoms of dry gangrene and sloughing phagedena. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • Surgical instruments: a variety of forceps, drills and scissors, with demonstrational figures. Etching by R.W., 1687.
  • Disabled and paralysed people lying outside a wall of the cemetery Santo Spirito in Rome begging for alms from passers-by. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
  • Advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment
  • Diseased tissue around the anus and genital area of a nine month old baby boy, with a detail showing the baby's face. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • The diseased back and neck of a woman, shown beside a detail of diseased tissue around the anus of her young son. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1871.
  • Phrenology within the reach of all : to the lady or gentleman of this house, with Mr. Moores' compliments / Thomas Moores.
  • Phrenology within the reach of all : to the lady or gentleman of this house, with Mr. Moores' compliments / Thomas Moores.
  • Phrenology within the reach of all : to the lady or gentleman of this house, with Mr. Moores' compliments / Thomas Moores.
  • Diseased tissue on the face, shoulders arms and torso of a man suffering from psoriasis and possibly syphilis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1866.
  • A convalescent soldier (Lance-Corporal R.C. Thomas) poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916.
  • A convalescent soldier (Lance-Corporal R.C. Thomas) poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916.
  • A convalescent soldier (Lance-Corporal R.C. Thomas) poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916.
  • Prostheses: two men with artificial limbs demonstrating their comparative agility by climbing gymnasium bars at St. Thomas' Hospital, London: the man on the left wears a new type of prosthesis. Photograph, ca. 1920.