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  • M0008000: St Cuthbert healing a young man with plague, 12th century
  • M0008001: Healing of St Cuthbert's knee by a stranger, 12th century
  • M0008002: St Cuthbert curing a child dying from plague, 12th century
  • Clappers and crutches used by lepers. 12th Century.
  • Armenian Manuscript, fragments. Text is from the Gospel of St Luke 18: 31-39 12th century
  • Nacton allows the patient, not the ulcer, to dictate his diet : Syrian white earthenware bowl, mid 12th century.
  • Nacton allows the patient, not the ulcer, to dictate his diet : Syrian white earthenware bowl, mid 12th century.
  • Nacton allows the patient, not the ulcer, to dictate his diet : Syrian white earthenware bowl, mid 12th century.
  • Nacton allows the patient, not the ulcer, to dictate his diet : Syrian white earthenware bowl, mid 12th century.
  • Statue of Saint Adrien (St. Drien, Finisterre). Emblem: holding his entrails. Invoked against intestinal ailments and from 12th century onwards against the plague.
  • Statue of Saint Adrien (St. Drien, Finisterre). Emblem: holding his entrails. Invoked against intestinal ailments and from 12th century onwards against the plague.
  • An uncle visiting Majnun and Layla in the desert, from the story Layla and Majnun by Nizami, a 12th century Iranian poet. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • Kepier Hospital. Founded early 12th century by Bishop Flambard who endowed it with lands for the purpose of making provision for the salary of the clerk officiating in the Church of St. Giles and for te maintanance of the poor. Bishop Pudsey later added to its endowments.
  • Qajar Persian lacquer binding , 12th/18th Centuries: lacquer, gold leaf, with various pigments. Front cover
  • Qajar Persian lacquer binding , 12th/18th Centuries: lacquer, gold leaf, with various pigments. Front cover
  • Qajar Persian lacquer binding , 12th/18th Centuries: lacquer, gold leaf, with various pigments. Detail: upper half of front cover
  • De oculis eorumque aegritudinibus et curis / [Benvenutus Grapheus].
  • Flores astrologiae / [Abū Maʻshar].
  • Flores astrologiae / [Abū Maʻshar].
  • Cyrurgia Guidonis de Cauliaco. De balneis Porectanis / [auctore Tura de Castello]. Cyrurgia Bruni. Theodorici. Rolandini. Rogerii. Lanfranci. Bertapalie. Jesu Hali de oculis. Canamusali de Baldac de oculis.
  • Cyrurgia Guidonis de cauliaco. Et Cyrurgia Bruni. Theodorici Rolandi Lanfranci Rogerii Bertapalie.
  • Man being bitten by a mad dog
  • Saint Verdiana. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi after A.D. Gabbiani.
  • The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII / By Giraldus de Barri; translated into English, and illustrated with views, annotations, and a life of Giraldus, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, bart.
  • 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.
  • A short, but concise account of Elisabeth, and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.
  • A short but concise account of Elisa & Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord, 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.
  • A short and concise account of Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders: in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.
  • A short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.
  • A short, but concise account of Elisabeth, and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.