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  • Diagrams illustrating: five bandaged legs (three with different sorts of splints), two heads showing veins, a bandaged head, a bandaged torso, a recepticle with body for curing shoulder dislocations and an eye operation. Line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1830.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Wound man, Pseudo-Galen, Anathomia; WMS 290
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boil directly opposite the mouth
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox -- 'Head Enveloping' pox
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • Henare Taratoa: a chief of the Ngai Te Rangi tribe, in the heroic act of getting water for the British wounded at the battle of Gate Pa, a Maori victory in the Waikato War, 28 April 1864. Watercolour by H.G. Robley, 1864.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.