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  • A barber curling a customer's hair with hot tongs is distracted by an item in the newspaper, consequently burning the man's head. Mezzotint by A.M. Huffam, 1827, after M.W. Sharp.
  • A sick man holding his head, leaning on a pile of books and mixing a dose of medicine for himself. Mezzotint by A. Huffam, 1826, after M.W. Sharp.
  • The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, with divers, and sundrye figures, and amongst the rest certayne nuefownde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of chirurgerye / Through Jacques Guillemeau ... And now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A. M.
  • The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, with divers, and sundrye figures, and amongst the rest certayne nuefownde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of chirurgerye / Through Jacques Guillemeau ... And now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A. M.
  • The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, with divers, and sundrye figures, and amongst the rest certayne nuefownde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of chirurgerye / Through Jacques Guillemeau ... And now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A. M.
  • The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, with divers, and sundrye figures, and amongst the rest certayne nuefownde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of chirurgerye / Through Jacques Guillemeau ... And now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A. M.
  • Boer War: bringing the wounded down from Spion Kop. Process print after H.M. Paget after A.E.C..
  • Boer War: removing the wounded after the Battle of Spion Kop. Brush and wash drawing by H.M.Paget, 1900, after A.E.C.
  • A veiled young woman looking out from a balcony at night. Engraving by J. Rogers after A.M. Huffam.
  • Boer War: a busy street scene with gracious ladies offering food, drink and assistance to wounded soldiers. Process print after C. Shepperson after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.
  • A chariot bearing Aesculapius rides above suffering humanity: representing pathology. Etching by J. Chapman, 1823, after A.D. Macquin.
  • M.A. Phillips. Photograph, 1934.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Gaspard Monge, Comte de Peluse. Line engraving by J. M. Fontaine after A. Devéria.
  • If anyone suffering from sore throat ties his (or her) left stocking round his throat on going to bed, he will be better in the morning. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. A. Radford.
  • If anyone suffering from sore throat ties his (or her) left stocking round his throat on going to bed, he will be better in the morning. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. A. Radford.
  • Plague victims in Rome receiving the Eucharist from a cardinal in procession. Etching by A. Legros.
  • Thomas Wakley. Coloured wood engraving by W. W.
  • Edinburgh, Greyfriars churchyard: the tomb of James Borthwick of Stow, carved with a skeleton and surgical instruments. Photograph, 19--.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine, Bucharest: a large group of delegates in conversation. Process print, 1932.
  • The Panama Canal: to determine whether he was fit to be extradited, two eminent physicians examine the stools of Dr Cornelius Herz, who had fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • A man's hands, one raised to his chest, the other holding a lit candle; advertisement for the 12th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization on May 21st 1995. Colour lithograph by Guzman.
  • Shigella flexneri invading embryonic stem cell