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  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Sir Alexander Crichton. Oil painting.
  • Sir Alexander Crichton. Oil painting.
  • Dorothea Baillie, sister of William and John Hunter. Oil painting.
  • Dorothea Baillie, sister of William and John Hunter. Oil painting.
  • William Harvey. Oil painting after P. Lely.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
  • Vases of flowers and a botanic garden with Saint Peter. Oil painting by O'Brien.
  • Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • Olea europaea L. Oleaceae Olive Distribution: Europe, Middle East. Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) regarded the olive as a panacea, curing all manner of cutaneous afflictions from shingles to sores
  • Results of the use of Professor H. Vincent's antistreptococcic serum for septicaemia. Drawing after H. Vincent, 1934.
  • Dante Alighieri. Colour lithograph, 1859, after S.S. Kirkup after a fresco attributed to Giotto.
  • Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.