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  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • Body measurements, front view, Chinese woodcut, 1443
  • Chinese woodcut: Bone measurements - front of the body
  • A woman and a child; the woman is suckling a baby white elephant. Photograph.
  • Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions; Amazement
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • The birth of the Antichrist from a dying woman via a Caesarean operation. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1475.
  • Vajrayogini (Tibetan rDo-rje rNal-byor-ma) and her retinue. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Vajrayogini (Tibetan rDo-rje rNal-byor-ma) and her retinue. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Active surveillance of cattle for <i>Trypanosoma</i>
  • Apoptotic cells
  • Human T cells showing nuclei & Golgi bodies
  • Alpha cells secreting glucagon, human pancreas
  • Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.
  • Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair at a Buddhist monastery in Burma. Halftone after a photograph by R. Grant Brown.
  • Sendai virus
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A black woman stands in a field with flowers holding a red ribbon above her head with the sun behind; advertisement by the National Urban League, Inc for those with or affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Beane.
  • A black woman stands in a field with flowers holding a red ribbon above her head with the sun behind; advertisement by the National Urban League, Inc for those with or affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Beane.
  • TEM of calici virus
  • Detecting cancer in human tissues, LM
  • In the graveyard of a church, Tom Idle gambles with some disreputable companions on a tombstone; the parish beadle stands behind and raises a stick as if to beat Idle. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.