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  • What is in this cup? : Vimbos, an ox in a teacup : the prince of fluid beef (see analysis).
  • An apothecary wearing a gown and skull cap, pouring fluid from a bottle. Chalk drawing by or after H. Stacy Marks.
  • An alchemist with angel's wings and a skull cap, pouring fluid from a ladle into a crucible. Pencil drawing by J. Tenniel, 1898.
  • Top left and right, arteries of the leg; centre, surgical instruments for piercing a hydrocele and extracting the fluid; bottom centre, pieces of cartilage. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Two Indian men: (left) seated, cutting green produce to shape, and (right) carrying a red bag and two bottles of fluid (ink? dye?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Christ holds up a glass heart filled with animals (sins) and cures a sick woman with the fluid from the wound in his side. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • A surgeon performing a paracentesis on an obese man, whose swollen abdomen has a cannula inserted into it, and is subsequently releasing fluid into a basin. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1672.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments including a small tube for inserting into the body to allow fluid to enter or escape (cannulla) and a surgical scalpel (bistoury) Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A purple heart within an upside-down heart that could also resemble a man's genitals; the heart is pierced by a black spike coming in from the right spilling blood-like fluid; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ouka Lele, ca. 1995.
  • Dr. Lynas trade mark compound wintergreen flavor colored compound of oil of wintergreen and oil of birch for ice cream, jellies, pastry, custard, candies, etc. : use sparingly till flavored to taste : 2 1/4 fluid oz / m'f'd by Dr. J. B. Lynas & Son, Logansport, Ind.
  • A purple heart within an upside-down heart that could also resemble a man's genitals; the heart is pierced by a black spike coming in from the right spilling blood-like fluid; one of a series of anti-AIDS posters produced by Artis entitled 'Imágenes contra el SIDA' [Images against AIDS]. Colour lithograph by Ouka Lele, ca. 1995.
  • Rabbit health check, injecting fluids
  • Rabbit health check, injecting fluids
  • Rabbit health check, injecting fluids
  • Machell's pump for extracting fluids. Engraving, 1800/1850.
  • Labels bearing the words 'Blood', 'semen' 'vaginal fluids'
  • On transfusion of blood and saline fluids / by Chas. Egerton Jennings.
  • Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link Fabaceae. Common broom, Genista. Distribution: Western and central Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Genista. Broom: … clense and open the stomach, break the stone in the reins [kidneys] and bladder, help the green sickness [anaemia]. Let such as are troubled with heart qualms or faintings, forbear it, for it weakens the heart and spirit vital' and in respect of the flowers he writes: 'Broome-flowers, purge water, and are good in dropsies [now regarded as heart failure with fluid retention].' Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • How HIV transmission works: getting fucked : fluids were a matter of some concern for Howard / GMFA, London Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership, MetroM8.
  • How HIV transmission works: getting fucked : fluids were a matter of some concern for Howard / GMFA, London Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership, MetroM8.
  • Engraving showing Sanctorio sitting in the balance that he constructed to determine the net weight change over time after the intake and excretion of food stuffs and fluids
  • Three labels bearing the words 'Blood', 'semen' and 'vaginal fluids' which can carry the HIV virus with an embracing couple, a needle and a pregant woman; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph.
  • Fourteen illustrated precautions to be taken when handling blood or fluids contaminated with blood, in order to avoid transmitting HIV, hepatitis B and other related infections; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Eusko Jaurlaritza Gobierno Vasco. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Fourteen illustrated instructions in Basque on the necessity of taking precautions when handling blood or fluids contaminated with blood to avoid transmitting HIV, hepatitis B and other related infections; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Eusko Jaurlaritza Gobierno Vasco. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Various methods of torture: one victim is tied to the stake and has pieces of flesh torn out of its side with pliers, while another is tied to the rack and has hot fluids poured on him, while yet another victim has to walk over nails. Woodcut.
  • Food and its adulterations : comprising the reports of the Analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public ... / by Arthur Hill Hassall.
  • Food and its adulterations : comprising the reports of the Analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public ... / by Arthur Hill Hassall.
  • For sexual transmission of HIV to occcur, body fluids (blood or semen) must enter the partner's body through the vagina, rectum or penis : A condom should be used in heterosexual sex for both vaginal and anal sex (for anal sex a stronger condom should be used) ... / Scottish AIDS Monitor ; photography by Alasdair Foster.
  • For sexual transmission of HIV to occcur, body fluids (blood or semen) must enter the partner's body through the vagina, rectum or penis : A condom should be used in heterosexual sex for both vaginal and anal sex (for anal sex a stronger condom should be used) ... / Scottish AIDS Monitor ; photography by Alasdair Foster.
  • A method of studying physick. Containing what a physician ought to know in relation to the nature of bodies, the laws of motion ... and the properties of fluids: chymistry, pharmacy, and botany: osteology, myology ... and dissection: the theory and practice of physick: physiology, pathology, surgery, diet, etc. And the whole Praxis medica interna; with the names and characters of the most excellent authors on all these subjects ... their best editions, and the method of reading them / Written in Latin ... Translated into English by Mr. Samber.