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  • Showcard advertising Merital quinine compound tablets.
  • Certificate of merit / Royal Veterinary College.
  • Joseph Lister, Order of Merit, Prussian, 1885
  • Joseph Lister, Order of Merit, English, 1902
  • Joseph Lister, Medal of the Order of Merit, English, 1902
  • Les secrets de la medecine des Chinois, consistant en la parfaite connoissance du pouls / Envoyez de la Chine par un François, homme de grand mérite.
  • Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
  • A Liberal dentist discussing politics and the merits of Gladstone to his patient (a Tory) while the latter is prevented from speaking. Wood engraving by F.H., 1892.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • Private : to the trad only : we beg to call your attention to our world-renowned Blood, Cough and Physic Balls, and solicit your orders for same if you have not already tested their merits.
  • Challenge to the American dwarf, General Tom Thumb : the English dwarf, Field Marshal Tom Thumb, now exhibiting daily, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ... to appear and perform with him in public, so that their respective admirers may judge of their comparative merits ...
  • Challenge to the American dwarf, General Tom Thumb : the English dwarf, Field Marshal Tom Thumb, now exhibiting daily, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ... to appear and perform with him in public, so that their respective admirers may judge of their comparative merits : General Tom Thumb. Imposition!!.
  • Polygonatum x hybridum Brugger Convalliariaceae. Hybrid Solomon's Seal (P. multiflorum x P. odoratum) It has the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Rhizomatous herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Garden plant whose parents come from Europe and Asia. Dioscorides (70 AD ex Beck, 2005) reports that Polygonatum is good for wounds if a poultice is applied, and that it also removes facial blemishes. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A French soldier returning from the American War of Independence is rewarded with the Order of Saint Louis and the hand of a rich man's daughter as his bride. Line engraving by J.J. Avril, 1784, after P.A. Wille.
  • A nun brings some refreshment to a feverish patient, with a poem by Legouvé. Coloured lithograph by J.P. Moynet, 1846.
  • Tobias George Smollett. Line engraving by W. & D. Lizars.
  • John Dee. Line engraving by F. Cleyn, 1658.
  • A surgeon applying a plaster with syrup from l'Isle de Candie to a patient's head. Engraving.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by G. F. Sargent.
  • Four designs of upper parts of faces, expressing different characters. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Adrianus Junius [Adriaen de Jonghe]. Line engraving by T. de Bry.
  • Leaflet: The Royal Mercatorium, or St. James's Bazaar...
  • Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Spire'
  • A beloved pet dog receives an enema. Line engraving by de Launay the younger after Lavrinet.
  • Trachoma WHO grade: trachomatous inflammation - intense (TI)
  • Trachoma WHO grade: trachomatous inflammation - intense (TI)
  • Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'
  • A large octopus is encircled by a huge rosary held by various bizarre creatures. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1864.
  • Anchusa azurea 'Loddon Royalist'