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  • Boer War: a military hospital building at Bloemfontein, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. Mayer.
  • Boer War: fever patients in a ward at the military hospital at Bloemfontein, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. Mayer.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 13th sessionGroup Portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, H.F. Conyngham, Dr. Crombie, M. F. Ellis, L. Clifford, W.F. Holmes, A.D. Humphry, Dr. G.C. Low , G. Loader, J.E. Mitchell, J.F.G. Mayer, Dr. Ross, D. Steel, P. Rees, E.H. Read, G.R. Ruata, Major Wilson, W.J. Radford, G. Warren, and Robert (lab assistant).
  • People rowing on a river overlooked by a large tree; representing May. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • A man brings his young wife to a natural philosopher's establishment so that she may receive electric stimulation. Lithograph by C. Motte after J. Madou.
  • A man brings his young wife to a natural philosopher's establishment so that she may receive electric stimulation. Lithograph by C. Motte after J. Madou.
  • A woman (May) leads a man (January) under a tree in which there is somone hiding and some onlookers are pointing at the scene. Engraving by C. Mosley after S. Wale.
  • A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • Equinoctial ring-dial signed "A.C. Toblhanhb Mockba" (i.e. A.S. Trinidin, Moscow) undated, 18th century. One side of instrument showing inscriptions on dials (some of numerical inscriptions and the names of the signs of the Zodiac are duplicated in Arabic, using Abjad for the numerals) also the calender scale which may compensate for the equation of time.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 27th Session.
  • The general state of medical and chirurgical practice exhibited; shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous ... And more rational ... methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, etc., recommended. To which are added a great number of cases and cures / [James Graham].
  • Statuette of Aesculapius excavated at Homs.
  • Mémoire adressé au Congrès de Rastatt concernant la petite vérole / Johann Christian Wilhelm Juncker.
  • Mémoire adressé au Congrès de Rastatt concernant la petite vérole / Johann Christian Wilhelm Juncker.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.5, Le syndrome pseudogrippal / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 23rd session
  • Eno's "Fruit Salt" : May, 1938.
  • Section of a testicle removed from a man suffering from tertiary syphilis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • Allium sativum (Garlic)
  • Diseased, swollen fingertip. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • Florence Nightingale. Stipple engraving by C. Cook.
  • The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. Collected into one entire volume / By John Gadbury.