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  • Heriot Watt formerly Edinburgh School of Arts College.
  • The Royal Institution or School of Arts, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by A. Cruse, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • The life school at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, with William Hunter, left, teaching anatomy. Drawing attributed to Elias Martin, ca. 1770.
  • Leeds New Mechanics' Institution and School of Art, Leeds, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1867, after C. Brodrick.
  • The Mechanics' Institute and School of Science and Art, Keighley, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after Lockwood and Mawson.
  • Ground plan of a school of drawing: cross-section with a vignette above showing art students drawing after a life model and sculpture. Etching by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, 1763.
  • Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
  • Boys are being taught by an schoolmaster sitting at a table. Stipple engraving by George Keating after Pasquilini.
  • The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth: the facade. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after B. Sly.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • Four people praying to Aesculapius. Watercolour attributed to circle of P.-N. Guérin.
  • A woman school teacher sits at a table with a book in her hand and a basket of needlework on the floor. Engraving by Charles Heath, 1844, after Richard Redgrave, 1843.
  • A sick tribal chief consulting a witch-doctor admits to having eaten a German missionary. Pen drawing by F. Garnett.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.
  • Study of a hand. Charcoal drawing by A. Mongrédien, 28 July 1881.
  • Boer Wars: British soldiers bringing first aid to wounded Boers. Watercolour by W. Hatherell, 1901.
  • Boer Wars: British soldiers bringing first aid to wounded Boers. Watercolour by W. Hatherell, 1901.
  • A jester with a small guitar slung over his shoulder offers cherries to a bird on his hand as another bird takes the fruit from the plate on the floor, and a chained monkey looks on. Engraving by E. Mohn after A. Lambron.
  • Two girls drawing copies of paintings hanging in a gallery. Etching by Ad. Lalauze.
  • A half-naked youth offers food to a snake coiled round a tree trunk. Engraving by C.-C. Bervic after J.-F.-L. Mérimée, 1798.
  • Two écorchés, facing right. Drawing, attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti, 15--.
  • Two écorchés, facing right. Drawing, attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti, 15--.
  • Thomas Turner of Manchester. Oil painting attributed to W. Bonnar.
  • A hind standing on a crag in the forest belling with a group of stags and deer resting on patch of grass below. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • World War I: The Red Cross in the trenches.