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  • A variety of animals copied from artworks in Rome, including elephants, lions and mythical creatures, set together in one landscape. Engraving.
  • A warrior wearing armour riding on a mythical creature in the shape of a horse, but formed by a variety of animals, people, birds and fish, holding a snake in each hand. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A mythical animal in the shape of a peacock. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • A compleat history of druggs divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral : with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts, illustrated ... / written by Monsieur Pomet ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort ... Done into English from the originals [by Joseph Browne].
  • A compleat history of druggs divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral : with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts, illustrated ... / written by Monsieur Pomet ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort ... Done into English from the originals [by Joseph Browne].
  • Daniel and the four fantastic beasts. Engraving, 1634.
  • Two young women chasing and sweeping bird figures with mens' heads out of a door, encouraged by two old men in religious habits. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A man asleep dreaming of monsters. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A man asleep dreaming of monsters. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A pack of hounds attacking a wolf ferociously in a forest. Etching with engraving by F. Joullain after A. F. Desportes.
  • A pack of hounds attacking and running after wild boar. Etching by F. Joullain, 1734 after A. F. Desportes after F. Snyders.
  • Nos facultes sont en rapport.
  • God stands in the centre of Eden; to the left he breathes life into Adam. Engraving by Scotin, c. 1765.
  • The presentation of Jesus to Simeon, or to a priest of the Temple. Engraving with stipple after F. Bonsignori.
  • The fugitive holy family board a barge across a river. Etching by J.B. Corneille after Annibale Carracci or D. Zampiere, il Domenichino.
  • In the Garden of Eden, Eve offers Adam the apple. Line engraving by C. Galle after G.B. Paggi.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, a 'virga' (shoot) from the genealogical tree of Jesse. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1778, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • An inscription carved on stone with marble statues by Michelangelo including Romulus and Remus. Engraving by J. Perini, 1771, after Michelangelo.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: Prehistoric man in health and disease.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • Patients wait in the outpatients' department of a hospital. Drypoint by D. Thorne.
  • Patients wait in the outpatients' department of a hospital. Drypoint by D. Thorne.
  • Mitochondrial Permeability Transition pore 'North passage'
  • Mitochondrial Permeability Transition pore 'North passage'
  • Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory with people at work; the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
  • Purple, orange and grey streaks. Watercolour by Tonka, 2000.