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  • Microvasculature of alligator
  • Microvasculature of alligator
  • An alligator. Etching by Heath.
  • An alligator. Coloured engraving, ca. 1800.
  • Illustration showing Lacertus omnium maximus, Crocodilus: The Alligator
  • A crocodile or alligator. Cut-out engraving pasted onto paper, 16--?.
  • Embryo of the American Alligator Alligator mississippiensis at 33 days of development (approximately 50% of the entire embryonic period). All of the external structures, including characteristic jaws and limbs, are already in place and clearly visible.
  • A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • A crocodile or alligator and a small lizard. Cut-out engravings pasted onto paper, 16--?.
  • Zoological Society of London: an alligator lying on the shores of a lake in the gardens. Coloured etching.
  • A boy with a variety of icthyosis, a skin disease, which in this case resembles the scales of an alligator. Stipple engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1818.
  • Skeletons of various reptiles: seven figures, illustrating the skeletons of an alligator, a turtle, a python, a rattlesnake, a frog, an iguana and a chameleon. Line engraving, 1830/1870?.
  • America: an alligator and a tortoise are about to slip into a river while a tapir and a wolverine look on. Engraving by T. Wallis after W. M. Craig.
  • A cayman basking on an island surrounded by swamp. Coloured lithograph after C. B. Brown.
  • A cayman and its young emerging from an egg. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • A tooth-drawer examining the tooth of a seated patient amidst paraphernalia relating to his profession. Pencil drawing attributed to D. Teniers II.
  • A tooth-drawer examining the tooth of a seated patient amidst paraphernalia relating to his profession. Pencil drawing attributed to D. Teniers II.
  • A woman in a feathered headdress and carrying a bow, is quelling a dark-skinned man; representing America. Etching by T. Hancock, 1805.
  • A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth after extracting it from a patient, who is spitting blood out of the window. Coloured lithograph by J.A.(?). Pecht, 1836, after G. Dou, 1672.
  • Two people come into a pharmacy to ask for advice, the apothecary sits resting his gouty leg. Etching by N. Loder after himself.
  • An apothecary mixing a concoction in his working room surrounded by the paraphernalia of his profession. Wood engraving by A. Bellenger after H.S. Marks.
  • A couple and their child consulting a pharmacist in his shop, an apprentice is mixing up a concoction with a large pestle and mortar. Soft-ground etching.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy, Roderick Random apprentice to Mr Lavement watches the scene with amusement. Etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett.
  • A surgeon in his workroom extracting stones from a patients head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Photogravure after J. Steen.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.