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  • Portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering [1755 - 1830], physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor, who discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye.
  • Astro-meteorologica, or aphorism's and discourses of the bodies coelestial, their natures and influences. Discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air, temperate, or intemperate, as to heat and cold ... sickness epidemical, maculae solis, and other secrets of nature / [J. Goad].
  • The torso and arm of a man suffering from syphilis, showing a rash of macular syphiloderm. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
  • Section through the fovea
  • Vestibular hair cells
  • Hair cells in the utricle
  • Astronomy: the sun, showing the progress of sunspot activity. Engraving by Seale.
  • The left forearm of Sir George Turner (?), showing symptoms of leprosy. Colour photograph, 19--.
  • Discoloured skin on the torso and arms of a man suffering from pityriasis versicolor. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.
  • Discoloured skin on the torso and arms of a man suffering from pityriasis versicolor. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.
  • Leprosy: borderline tuberculoid leprosy
  • Leprosy: circular skin lesion on the back of an Indian patient. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson?), 1921/1950 (?), after Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
  • Early syphilis (secondary stage)
  • Skin: Kaposi's sarcoma
  • OCT montage showing cross-section of a human eye.
  • Ginkgo leaf
  • Ginkgo berry
  • Choroidal space, human eye.
  • Choroidal Space, human eye.
  • Choroid, human eye. Zone of Haller.
  • Choroid, human eye. Zone of Haller.
  • Choroidal vessels in the human eye with red blood cells