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  • A Chinese man displaying symptoms of an axillary carbuncle on his armpit. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.
  • A treatise of the plague: containing the nature, signes, and accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the fevers, botches, and carbuncles that raigne in these times: and above all things most singular experiments and preservatives in the same, gathered by the observation of divers worthy travailers, and selected out of the writings of the best learned phisitians in this age.
  • A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A doctor trying to administer medicines to a drunken, carbuncled sailor. Coloured etching by W. Elmes after XYZ.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • A self-indulgent man afflicted with gout: the pain is represented by a demon burning his foot. Coloured lithograph by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after Captain Hehl.
  • Identification and dosage card for the new BRL Penicillins.
  • Identification and dosage card for the new BRL Penicillins.
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  • Female genitalia showing severely diseased tissue, and sores on the upper thighs to each side. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
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  • Sulfamil : emulsión estable de aceite en agua que contiene 5% de sulfatiazol "Frosst" / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; distribuidores exclusivos para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.
  • Sulfamil : emulsión estable de aceite en agua que contiene 5% de sulfatiazol "Frosst" / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; distribuidores exclusivos para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.
  • Chinese woodcut: Sores on the nape
  • Chinese woodcut: Jade Pillow abscess
  • Moxibustion, 'Riding the Bamboo Horse', Chinese woodcut
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses - 'left hand touching abscess' etc
  • Chinese woodcut: Jade Pillow abscess and Calamitous abscess
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- fugu and duikou abscess
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- postauricular abscesses, etc.
  • Treatment of acute pathologies, suojiao yongsha, lithograph