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  • Clinical lectures on diseases of the nervous system delivered at the infirmary of la Sal Petriere. Vol. 3 / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by Thomas Savill.
  • A Chinese man offering a small lizard on a chopstick to an English guest who is reluctant to eat it. Coloured lithograph by Smith after himself.
  • An Englishman is startled when he sees his reflection in the mirror and finds his Chinese barber has given him a queue. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • A Chinese man and woman having their first Western clothes fitted. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • The people of China weighed down by the hierarchy of emperor, mandarins and priests. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great: interior view showing the east and north ambulatory. Etching by John Thomas Smith, 1810.
  • Opera medica. Quibus additi fuere tractatus sequentes / I. Gualt. Harris De morbis acutis infantium. II. Gul. Cole Novae hypotheseos ad explicanda febrium intermittentium symptomat. & typos excogitatae hypotyposis &c. III. Ejusd. De secretione animali. IV. Mart. Lister. De morbis chronicis. V. Ejusdem De variolis. VI. Thomae Sydenham Processus integri in morbis fere omnibus curandis, cum tract. de phthisi nunquam antehac edito.
  • Opera medica. Quibus additi fuere tractatus sequentes / I. Gualt. Harris De morbis acutis infantium. II. Gul. Cole Novae hypotheseos ad explicanda febrium intermittentium symptomat. & typos excogitatae hypotyposis &c. III. Ejusd. De secretione animali. IV. Mart. Lister. De morbis chronicis. V. Ejusdem De variolis. VI. Thomae Sydenham Processus integri in morbis fere omnibus curandis, cum tract. de phthisi nunquam antehac edito.
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Opera medica / [Richard Morton].
  • Opera medica / [Richard Morton].
  • Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy. Tinted lithograph, 1837.
  • Saint Martin of Tours: he cuts a piece of his cloak for a man with impaired legs. Etching by R. Sawyer.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 71st Session.
  • An episode in Samuel Foote's play The devil upon two sticks: the cobbler Emmanuel Last is examined for entry as a licentiate to the Royal College of Physicians by Dr Hellebore, the president of the college. Mezzotint by J. Finlayson after J. Zoffany, 1769.
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.
  • Thomas, a man wearing studded leather with glasses and boots declares he has AIDS; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Jan Gort for the SAD Schorerstichting.