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  • Benares, India: a fakir sitting on a bed of nails. Photograph by R.C. Mazumdar, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Benares, India: a fakir sitting on a bed of nails. Photograph by R.C. Mazumdar, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Photograph of R. C. B. Wall; 1926
  • C.R.L. Putnam. Photograph, 1896.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, London: Basil Hood and J.R. Lunn. Photograph, c. 1940.
  • Jean Civiale. Lithograph by C. Fuhr after a photograph by A.-R. Trinquart.
  • Royal Postgraduate Medical School and M.R.C. Unit, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient, after recovery. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • J. Hilton, 1804-1878. Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. From a photograph lent by E.R. Boland Esq. , C.B.E., F.R.C.P., Dean of Guy's Hospital to the university of Leeds. Copy neg of PHO. 13615, see this for details of presentation to W.H.M.M.
  • Portrait of Henry Lee, F.R.C.S. Copy of photograph lent by and returned to Miss M. Byse, Henry Lee's grand-daughter. Inscription on back of photograph, "Copied by Alfred Ellis & Walery, 51 Baker Street, London , W. No. 27622"
  • A convalescent soldier (Lance-Corporal R.C. Thomas) poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916.
  • A convalescent soldier (Lance-Corporal R.C. Thomas) poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916.
  • A convalescent soldier (Lance-Corporal R.C. Thomas) poses in drag, wearing a silk dress and sitting with a mourning veil. Photographic postcard, 1916.
  • Aconitum carmichaelii Debeaux. Ranunculaceae. Chinese aconite, Chinese wolfsbane, Carmichael's monkshood. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution C. to W. China to N. America. Named for Dr J.R. Carmichael (d. 1877), English physician, plant collector and Protestant missionary from 1862-1877 in Guangdong and Shandong, China initially in Canton. He aided Francis Forbes to collect plants for Kew. Aconitum plants are so poisonous that Theophrastus states that death was the punishment for possessing them. Aconitine is the poison and was used - from Aconitum ferox - in the 'curry murder' in London in 2009. It causes respiratory paralysis, bradycardia (slowing of the pulse), cardiac arrhythmias, tingling, sweating, gastric cramps, diarrhoea and death, both by ingestion and by absorption through the mucous membranes and the skin. Despite this it is widely used in Chinese herbal medicine. It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be dispensed by a herbal practitioner for external use following a one-to-one consultation, or by prescription from a registered doctor or dentist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tincroft tin mine, near Camborne, Cornwall: two miners at work in a mine shaft. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910.
  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Halftone after H. M. Paget, c.1900.
  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.
  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.
  • Association of County Medical Officers of Health of England and Wales: members of the association, 1952. Photograph, 1952.
  • M0007018: Green earthernware leech jar
  • New Zealand nurse honoured 7-11-44 / Central Press Photos Ltd. incorporating Central News Illustrations Service.
  • New Zealand nurse honoured 7-11-44 / Central Press Photos Ltd. incorporating Central News Illustrations Service.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Jaffa, Palestine: a second world war British army camp kitchen with a turret, rows of small window openings and a grass roof. Photograph by Lieutenant-Colonel (Terence ?) Otway, 1939/1945 (?).