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  • Hairstyles through history. 10, 17th Century, cavalier.
  • Hairstyles through history. 10, 17th Century, cavalier.
  • Hairstyles through history. 10, 17th Century, cavalier.
  • Hairstyles through history. 10, 17th Century, cavalier.
  • Plan of Wellcome museum galleries: 1st floor showing new arrangement, 1942, Dr Daukes scheme: Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, 19th & 20th centuries, history of disease, research.
  • A schoolmaster pointing to the text read by one of his pupils while his other two pupils observe. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade.
  • An old woman sitting and reading a book. Etching after Rembrandt.
  • A young man laments the death of a young woman. Engraving by J. Brown after T. J. Barker, c.1834.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A surgeon tending a woman who has just fainted after bloodletting; she is supported by female members of her family. Engraving by Garlieb after Eglon Hendrik van der Neer.
  • Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • A man stands smoking a pipe as two onlookers sit at a table. Woodcut, 17th century.
  • A surgeon operating on a man's head. Engraving by H. Bary, 1658, after F. Verwilt.
  • A physician holding the hand of a female patient in a scene from Molière's play L'amour médecin. Line block by Yves & Barret after L. Leloir.
  • A physician in traditional costume, Holland 1640. Etching.
  • Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs : three essays on the powers of reproduction : with some account of the judicial "congress" as practised in France during the seventeenth century / by John Davenport.
  • A surgeon treating a male patient's leg. Engraving.
  • An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
  • The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.
  • The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.
  • The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.
  • A young woman with a broken pillar; representing fortitude. Etching, 16--.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A family group of five singing around a table to the accompaniment of the violinist who is the originator of the image. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after G. Schalken.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.
  • 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.
  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.