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  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Stomach from a neonatal dog, longitudinal section
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Cat tongue, cross section
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Top, a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia; centre, a coach on a street in Baltimore; bottom left, slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia; bottom right, a slave playing the flute. Wood engraving after E.C., 1856.