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  • National School AIDS Prevention day on 23rd May
  • 'Byno' Hypophosphites : "one of the most popular tonics of the day." B.M.J. : May 1912.
  • 'Byno' Hypophosphites : "one of the most popular tonics of the day." B.M.J. : May 1913.
  • Geranium Day Tuesday May 11th, 1926 / Greater London Fund for the Blind conducted by the National Institute for the Blind.
  • Nurses caring for patients in Morocco: celebrating International Nursing Day on 12 May 2002 . Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A man visiting a health resort is bound and transported on a day bed by two men; bath tub in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort is bound and transported on a day bed by two men; bath tub in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • The appellants case : to be heard at the bar of the House of Lords, on Tuesday the first day of May 1733 / C. Talbot, Tho. Lutwyche.
  • The appellants case : to be heard at the bar of the House of Lords, on Tuesday the first day of May 1733 / C. Talbot, Tho. Lutwyche.
  • Children tending a garden and illustrating a wall with the words 'un compromiso con la vida' within a school in Venezuela to promote AIDS prevention day on 23rd May (1995). Colour lithograph by Angeles, 1995.
  • A narrative of the last illness of the ... Earl of Orford: from May 1744, to the day of his decease, March the eighteenth following. With an appendix: occasioned by the Letter from a physician in town to another at Bath / [John Ranby].
  • Two children, one on roller-skates, look up at a red heart above a green tree trunk with a butterfly and a bird; an advertisement for National School AIDS Prevention day on 23rd May by OPL-Sida. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • This is to certify that the Ovaltine of Messrs. A. Wander Ltd. of London has been passed by the Examining Board of the Institute of Hygiene as fulfilling the standard of purity & quality required by them ... 22nd day of May 1933 / A. Wander Ltd.
  • Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
  • Camassia leichtlinii (Baker)S.Watson Hyacinthaceae. Great Camas, Quamash. The species was named for Maximillian Leichtlin (1831-1910 of Baden , Germany, bulb enthusiast who corresponded with J.G. Baker at Kew. Bulbous herb. Distribution: North America. The bulbs of Camassia species were eaten by the Native Americans, the Nez Perce, after cooking by steaming for a day - which suggests they may be poisonous raw. They gave them to the American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk, on their expedition (1804-1806) when they ran out of food. The bulbs of the similar looking 'Death camus', Toxicoscordion venenosum have been fatal when ingested by mistake (RBG Kew on-line). Steroidal saponins, which are precursors in the manufacture of steroids and cytotoxic activity has been detected in the sap of the bulbs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • For six days only. From Monday, May 26, and five following days : The three wonders of creation. Patronized by Her most gracious Majesty the Queen, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent : The three German Liliputians : the Brockstedt family! / Town-Hall, Waterford.
  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1878.
  • Sir William Crookes, holding a Crookes Tube. Colour lithograph after L. Ward [Spy].
  • Members of the National Club shooting at a rifle range in Chelsea. Lithograph by Day & Haghe, 1831.
  • Crimean War, Sebastopol: Christmas Dinner before the Battle of Sebastopol. Tinted lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1855, after W. Simpson.
  • Walpurgisnacht: a devil sees witches on broomsticks setting off into the night. Etching by R. Girling.
  • Blenheim Palace / Union-Castle.
  • Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.
  • Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.
  • Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.
  • Blenheim Palace / Union-Castle.
  • Blenheim Palace / Union-Castle.
  • The body of Napoleon Bonaparte laid out after death, 1821. Wood engraving after J. Ward.
  • The body of Napoleon Bonaparte laid out after death, 1821. Wood engraving after J. Ward.
  • A no smoking sign: World No Tobacco Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2005.