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  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing over fifty stone, aged 36. Coloured etching.
  • Procedures for using a protective face mask in civil defence: four figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Horace Bénédict de Saussure and others descending Mont Blanc. Coloured aquatint.
  • A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • An artist sketching an elderly man with a reclining man looking on. Photo-lithograph after an etching by W. Geikie.
  • A family group with an old lady, a young woman with a child on her lap and a small boy playing a whistle. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • An old man sits asleep with his hands clasped while an old lady looks down at something she is holding in her hands. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut
  • Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut
  • Edward Bamfield, a giant, and John Coan, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Roberts, 1771, after B. Rackstraw.
  • Horace Bénédict de Saussure and others ascending Mont Blanc. Coloured aquatint.
  • The Christ of Burgos. Engraving by Pedro Nolasco Gascó.
  • A young woman with her head thrown back wearing a band in her hair representing a woman with AIDS, a painting by a 19 year old haemophiliac who died of AIDS; an advertisement for Children Living in a World with AIDS, ca. 1997.
  • A Spanish couple are dancing the boleras accompanied by a man playing the guitar. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark after Revd. William Bradford.
  • Human sacrifice among the Khonds in India: a victim (meriah) about to be dismembered. Wood engraving by C. Krull after J. Fuchs, 186-.
  • Russo-Turkish War: Princess of Roumania's Hospital at Bucharest. Wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.
  • Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A seated man sharpening a quill pen. Engraving by R. Wallis after F. van Mieris.
  • Stages in the career of an Anglican cleric. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1791, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Stages in the career of an Anglican cleric. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1791, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.