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  • Four different paces and figures of the old school of horsemanship and riding, including the passage, amble and galop. Etching by C. Parrocel.
  • Part of the Old Schools, Oxford. Wood engraving.
  • King's College Chapel, east range of the Old Schools and Senate house, Cambridge. Line engraving.
  • King's College Chapel, east range of the Old Schools, and the Senate House, Cambridge. Line engraving by Neele & Son.
  • Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The sun painted in red and cerise circles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • The sun painted in red and cerise circles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An actor performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • An actor performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • W. Harvey, King's School Canterbury.
  • An actor performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • An actor performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • After the suicide of Seneca the Younger, the Emperor Nero orders the arrest of the suicide of Seneca's wife Pompeia Paulina. Oil painting by an Italian painter, ca. 1750.
  • After the suicide of Seneca the Younger, the Emperor Nero orders the arrest of the suicide of Seneca's wife Pompeia Paulina. Oil painting by an Italian painter, ca. 1750.
  • After the suicide of Seneca the Younger, the Emperor Nero orders the arrest of the suicide of Seneca's wife Pompeia Paulina. Oil painting by an Italian painter, ca. 1750.
  • Buildings and alumni of St Thomas's Hospital, London. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company.
  • A forlorn looking child with arms outstretched among flowers, representing a child with AIDS ostracized for fear of transmitting the disease. Colour lithograph by J. Keeler, 1987, for the Centre for Attitudinal Healing.
  • Chimney sweep's cancer
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: the entrance gateway. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a cell with bed seen through doorway. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a wharf on the East River with buildings. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a lodge with oeil-de-boeuf windows seen from above next to wharf. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings with a tower; a pile of bricks in the foreground from a demolished building. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: children patients, nurses and doctors sitting on a balcony in the sunshine. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a ward for male patients with case-notes clipped to wall above beds. Photograph, ca. 1885/1898.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a quay on the East River near the hospital, with a steamship. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a courtyard with (right) back of entrance gateway, (left) a building with pilasters and steep entrance steps. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a nurse's sitting room (?), or end of ward, with cage on left, three beds visible on right. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings seen from above with the East River on left. Photograph.