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  • Caduceus surmounted by Pegasus and cornucopiae
  • Caduceus: a Doctor's sign in the Wellcome Institute.
  • Statuette of Aesculapius, holding caduceus.
  • Roman oculist's stamp with caduceus-shaped (?) scratches.
  • Mercury (Hermes) holding the caduceus. Oil painting after Raphael.
  • Mercury (Hermes) holding the caduceus. Oil painting after Raphael.
  • Mercury (Hermes) holding the caduceus. Oil painting after Raphael.
  • Mercury (Hermes) holding the caduceus. Oil painting after Raphael.
  • Hands clasping a caduceus with twinned cornucopias surmounted by Pegasus. Woodcut, 1588.
  • Mercury discovering the caduceus. Photographic postcard by Neurdein frères after A. Idrac, 191-.
  • Mercury discovering the caduceus. Photographic postcard by Neurdein frères after A. Idrac, 191-.
  • A woman holding the caduceus and a bunch of keys; representing dialectic. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Oil painting: man holding a caduceus. After a lost 16th century painting. In the Johnson coll. Philadelphia.
  • Astronomy: Mercury with his caduceus, in his chariot, drawn by cockerels. Engraving by C. Lasinio after Raphael, 1516.
  • The Muse Polyhymnia seated with attributes of eloquence: a scroll, two books, and a caduceus. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1592.
  • A bowl on a base, a torch on a stand, a metal vase, and a vase with the caduceus on its side. Etching by L. Roccheggiani, ca. 1811.
  • A caduceus in which the two snakes are entwined around a nuclear bomb: representing Cuban physicians' opposition to nuclear war. Colour screen print (?) by O. Martínez, 1985.
  • Five men sitting around a table; Hermes flying in the sky, holding the caduceus and a scroll of paper; a city (Nuremberg) in the background. Engraving by M. van Somer, 1661.
  • A well head carved with fish motifs, a metal ladle with a snake-handle, a funerary urn, and a terracotta relief of the caduceus and other objects. Etching by L. Roccheggiani, ca. 1811.
  • A crowned woman in red holding a rose-topped caduceus; she is suspended in a circle of water; a cherub blows wind from above; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • A woman standing in a market place, a scroll in her left hand, a caduceus in her right, while to her right a play is performed, to her left two men are debating; representing Rhetoric. Engraving after M. de Vos.
  • Mercury (Hermes). Photograph by Alinari.
  • Saint Blaise. Photograph after an engraving.
  • Surgical anatomy: front cover of wrapper to Fascicule 1 of Joseph Maclise's work. Lithograph, 1851.
  • Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston. Photograph by A.C. Cooper after George Henry, 1925.
  • Mercury [Hermes]. Engraving.
  • Mercury [Hermes]. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • Smoking: a man smoking in the countryside, his head represented as a cigarette which turns into a smoking chimney; representing the polluting effects of smoking. Colour lithograph after M. Glaser, 1973.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel. Engraving, 1758.
  • Mercury [Hermes]. Engraving by G.H. Frezza, 1704, after P. de Petris after F. Albani.