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  • Two house martins or swallows. Engraving by F. Place, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • Various birds, including pheasants, swallows and a hoopoe. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.
  • Satire: "swallowing a pill", 1827
  • African Rock Python swallowing young Buck
  • Stricture of the oesophagus consequent on swallowing sulphuric acid
  • A Bengali proverb: two watersnakes swallowing fish and frog. Watercolour drawing.
  • A Bengali proverb: two watersnakes swallowing fish and frog. Watercolour drawing.
  • Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A giant coluber snake swallowing a panther. Etching after Howitt, 1 April 1812.
  • An infant swallowing a spoonful of Sanostol food supplement. Colour lithograph by E.B., 195-.
  • Zoological Society of London: a python swallowing a boa with the aid of an animal keeper. Wood engraving by Pearson.
  • Misunderstanding between a doctor and his working-class patient, who has swallowed the leeches he prescribed. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1877.
  • A naked woman lies stretched out on the doctor's couch; she has swallowed a two sou piece; with two other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction, 1910.
  • A snake in the process of swallowing a small mammal, probably a mouse, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A snake in the process of swallowing a small mammal, probably a mouse, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A man who has swallowed petroleum asks a pharmacist for a remedy; the pharmacist shows hims several bottles and lets him chose the one he prefers, with fatal results. Line block.
  • British politicians as acrobats at a fair: performances by Lord John Russell balancing on a pole inscribed "Irish corporation billl...", Daniel O'Connell swallowing a sword inscribed "Repeal", and Thomas Spring-Rice balancing on his chin an object with a picture of a church, watched by political onlookers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
  • Bottom surface of a human tongue
  • Human tongue
  • Human tongue
  • Tip of a human tongue
  • Pills, artwork
  • Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : sand martin.
  • Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : sand martin.
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Location of various boils
  • Surrounded by ghoulish apparitions, a manic priest carries an enema towards a wretchedly praying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, c. 1797.
  • Anne Siggs, an eccentric lame beggar. Engraving, 1804.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground. Engraving.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground. Engraving.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by T. Bowles.