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  • A physician lecturing from a book to four students in a church. Heliotype.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / with a foreword by Sir Henry Hallett Dale.
  • A physician examining urine. Mezzotint by R. Houston after A. van Ostade.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.
  • A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.
  • A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.
  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • Joseph Clark, a contortionist. Line engraving by Thornton.
  • A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Nebuchadnezzar, gone mad, grovels like a beast of the earth; he gropes for his crown. Engraving, 16--.
  • Joseph Clark, a contortionist. Line engraving by P. Tempest after M. Laroon.
  • Ambroise Paré, as an apprentice barber-surgeon in a busy shop in Paris. Wood engraving by J. Ansseau after E. Morin.
  • An old man discourses with a woman with a bird on her head; representing dialectic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • Hygieia stands before a pyramid engraved with the names of famous figures in the history of medicine. Etching by B. Hübner, 1777.
  • Anaesthesia exhibition, 1946
  • A woman with a castle on her head traces a compass across a globe while two men crouch over it; representing geometry. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • [Wellcome Chinese Collection 100].
  • [Wellcome Chinese Collection 100].
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, and the burning of Protestant books in Cambridge marketplace. Etching by G. Terry.
  • Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory with people at work; the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
  • Museum of Practical Geology: a lecture by Lyon Playfair on the chemistry, manufacture and uses of glass. Wood engraving, 1852.
  • Paramaribo, Surinam: the room of a natural historian. Watercolour, 1845.