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  • A fakir or sadhu. Photograph by E.D. Lyon.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Director, E. A. Underwood, and museum's archaeologist, A. D. Lacaille, in the Director's Room. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Director, E. A. Underwood, and museum's archaeologist, A. D. Lacaille, in the Director's Room. Photograph.
  • E.W., M.D., D.Sc., Hope. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1912-13. From the photograph in the Society.
  • The 'Optophone', a reading device for the blind, invented by E. E. Fournier D'Albe: demonstrated in use by a man. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • Exhibition '100 Years of medical Photography', 1955.
  • Saint Jerome. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1797.
  • Pope Pius VII on the Saône near Lyons. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu.
  • Group photograph of phisiologists at University College.
  • Petri dish containing E. coli
  • Photograph of London School of Tropical Medicine, 1903
  • Vietnam: a man kneeling on the ground, about to be executed; man holding a sword standing next to him. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.E. Hocquard, ca. 1885.
  • Vietnam: the headless body of an executed man lying on the ground; an official is holding the man's head. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.E. Hocquard.
  • A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.
  • Vietnam: a man in a pillory, who is being led to his execution, accompanied by his family members, his executioner (holding sword) and officials. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.-E. Hocquard.
  • M0008124: Tract on diet and hygiene by Maimonides
  • World War One surgeons (including George Grey Turner, far left): an international gathering in Washington D.C.: group portrait. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1918.
  • Association of County Medical Officers of Health of England and Wales: members of the association, 1952. Photograph, 1952.
  • India: the Bikanir Camel Corps conservancy area ferry post: incinerators in the desert with Indian men. Photograph by J.D. Graham, 1900/1910.
  • Unveiling of the statue of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, attended by a large crowd, Glasgow, 8th October 1913; Glasgow University in the background. Photograph, 1913.
  • Jane Augusta Fry and Richenda E. Reynolds, two British Quaker women providing relief in Metz to casualties of the Franco-Prussian War. Photograph, ca. 1870.
  • A naked man jumps and somersaults, then leaps over another man's head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman walks up and down steps carrying small objects and waves a handkerchief. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man throws things. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man walks, throws a disk, shovels and uses a pick. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A transvestite nurse attending a man yelling with pain on a hospital bed; advertising fair rates of medical insurance for people who are sick or dying of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Wolfgang Mudra and Jürgen Rocholl for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 1992.
  • Swans and storks on land and water. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman empties a bucket, walks up and down steps and plays tennis. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man hammers an anvil, chops and saws wood. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman mounts steps, another picks up a handkerchief, a third walks then runs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.