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  • Houses representing an Indian boardgame played with dice. Woodcut by an Indian artist.
  • Soldiers sit around an upturned drum playing a game with dice. Wood engraving by W. Armstrong.
  • A dice bearing the words 'Don't gamble with AIDS' amidst a backdrop bearing the words 'Think!'. Colour lithograph.
  • Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play dice. Engraving by P.F. Basan after M. Österreich after Valentin de Boulogne.
  • A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.
  • Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a fraudulent manipulation of the Stock Exchange, playing dice while in the stocks. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1814.
  • A man holding a torch and surrounded by heart-shaped vegetables is standing near a table with dices, pointing to a bunch of dead birds on a hook; representing the month December. Engraving.
  • Dice representing gambling with health; an advertisement for the Genito Urinary Medicine Clinic (GUM) for treatment and advice on sexually transmitted diseases like Aids by The Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland. Colour lithograph.
  • A man crawls on all fours towards a gambling dice bearing hearts as a glamorous woman holding a bag looks on; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted along the bottom; an advertisement for safe sex by the OFfice of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez.
  • Chick embryo somites & SC
  • Aristotle and Ptolemy discuss with Copernicus their respective views on the movements of the Sun and the Earth. Engraving, 1663, after S. Della Bella, 1632.
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Human HeLa cancer cell, apoptosis
  • Mouse nose, transverse section
  • Female human flea, Pulex irritans
  • Female human flea, Pulex irritans
  • Cat tongue, longitudinal section
  • Peacock louse
  • Malaria oocyst (Plasmodium berghei)
  • The dance of death: the canon. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • Parasitoid wasp Wallaceaphytis kikiae, LM.
  • Cat tongue, cross section
  • Cat lip
  • Cat lip
  • Fairy fly (Himopolynema), parasitoid wasp
  • Malleus maleficarum / [Heinrich Institoris].
  • The dance of death: the astrologer. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • Trichinella spiralis