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  • Pilgrims raising a cross at a mountainous shrine in Austria. Engraving by T. S. Engleheart after G. R. Lewis.
  • Camassia leichtlinii (Baker)S.Watson Hyacinthaceae. Great Camas, Quamash. The species was named for Maximillian Leichtlin (1831-1910 of Baden , Germany, bulb enthusiast who corresponded with J.G. Baker at Kew. Bulbous herb. Distribution: North America. The bulbs of Camassia species were eaten by the Native Americans, the Nez Perce, after cooking by steaming for a day - which suggests they may be poisonous raw. They gave them to the American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk, on their expedition (1804-1806) when they ran out of food. The bulbs of the similar looking 'Death camus', Toxicoscordion venenosum have been fatal when ingested by mistake (RBG Kew on-line). Steroidal saponins, which are precursors in the manufacture of steroids and cytotoxic activity has been detected in the sap of the bulbs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Seventeen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C.E. Miksch, 1923.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, dressed as a retired Commodore. Mixed-method print by F. C. Lewis, 1826, after D. Wilkie, 1823.
  • Photograph London School of Tropical Medicine, 74th Session
  • Group Portrait at the London School of Tropical Medicine.
  • Callanish, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides: prehistoric standing stones (menhirs). Watercolour by Sir G. Hardy, 1862.
  • Callanish, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides: prehistoric standing stones (menhirs). Watercolour by Sir G. Hardy, 1862.
  • Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • Sir William MacCormac about to perform a surgical operation at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. Albumen print, 1891.
  • A barber in Rouen dressing a man's hair. Coloured engraving by G.R. Lewis after himself.
  • 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 most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.
  • A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.