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  • Paul Ehrlich. Photograph after a plaque in the Deutsches-Hygiene Museum, Dresden.
  • The eye, surrounded by the rays of the sun; advertising the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • A red crab, representing the disease cancer. Colour lithograph by Kramer, ca. 1931.
  • Adam and Eve and the serpent; advertising an exhibition on sexually transmitted diseases at Altonaer Museum Hamburg. Colour lithograph after P.O. Rössler, 1926.
  • Hygieia as a personification of hygiene: a woman holding up the palm of her hand on the left and holding the staff of Aesculapius on the right, with water in the background; advertising an exhibition in Düsseldorf on health and welfare. Colour lithograph after L. ten Hompel, 1926.
  • Bernardino Ramazzini. Photograph after a bas-relief by Ubaldo Magnavacca, 1932.
  • Robert Koch. Photograph after a bust by Edmund Moeller, 1932.
  • Girolamo Fracastoro. Photograph after a bust by R. Righe, 1932.
  • Max von Pettenkofer. Photograph after a bust by H. Th. Richter.
  • Hippocrates. Photograph after a bust.
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one performing self-torture. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • The viscera and the venous system. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • The viscera and the venous system. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • A Mevlevi, or whirling dervish, performing a ritual mystic dance. Drawing, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Athenians wearing masks celebrate the vintage by dancing around a statue of Bacchus and sacrificing a goat to him. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654, after F. Cleyn.
  • An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.
  • Holī festival. Watercolour by a Lucknow painter, 18--.
  • Buddha, resisting the demons of Mara, who are attempting to prevent him from attaining enlightenment, as angels watch from above. Lithograph.
  • Holī festival. Watercolour by a Lucknow painter, 18--.
  • "Sisters 'B'" in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • "Sisters 'B'" in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • A young woman dancing the tarantella. Watercolour.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.