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  • The works of Aristotle : in four parts. Containing I. His complete master-piece ... II. His complete and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. HIs last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Historia medicinae, in qua, si non omnia, pleraque saltem, medicorum ratiocinia, dogmata, hypotheses, sectae, &c. ... quae ab exordio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora inclaruerunt, pertractantur / J. Conr. Barchusen.
  • Thomæ Sydenham medici doctoris, ac practici Londinensis celeberrimii, Opera medica / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. To which is annexed a discourse about the advantages of the use of simple medicines / by Robert Boyle.
  • Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. To which is annexed a discourse about the advantages of the use of simple medicines / by Robert Boyle.
  • Feldbuch der Wundarznei / Mit einem Vorwort zum Neudruck von Johannes Steudel.
  • Pandora : das ist, die edlest Gab Gottes, oder der Werde vnd heilsame Stein der Weysen, mit welchem die alten Philosophi, auch Theophrastvs Paracelsvs, die vnvollkommene Metallen durch gewalt des Fewrs verbessert sampt allerley schedliche vnd vnheilsame Kranckheiten, innerlich vnnd eusserlich haben vertrieben. Ein guldener Schatz, welcher durch einen Liebhaber dieser Kunst, von seinem Vndergang erzettet ist worden, vnd zu Nutz allen Menschen fürnemlich den Liebhabern der Paracelsischen Artzney, jetzt widerumb in Truck verfertiget / [Franciscus Epimetheus].
  • Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.
  • A man standing, anterior view with brain and contents of thorax and abdomen exposed. Engraving by Giulio de' Musi, by 1552, first published in 1714.
  • Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it. Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925.
  • Vertebral column with dissections of nerves and blood vessels, with skin (?) in the background, and (left) the figure of a man representing Ecclesiastes, the whole being an illustration of Ecclesiastes XII, 6 "the silver cord". Drawing attributed to Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730.
  • Vertebral column with dissections of nerves and blood vessels, with skin (?) in the background, and (left) the figure of a man representing Ecclesiastes, the whole being an illustration of Ecclesiastes XII, 6 "the silver cord". Drawing attributed to Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730.
  • Anatomia del cavallo, infermità, et suoi rimedii. Opera nuova ... / Del signor Carlo Ruini ... Adornata di bellissime figure, le quali dimostrano tutta l'anatomia di esso cavallo.
  • Thomae Sydenham ... Opera universa : in quibus non solummodò morborum acutorum historiae & curationes novâ & exquisitâ methodo diligentissimè traduntur, verùm etiam morborum ferè omnium chronicorum curatio brevissima, pariter ac fidelissima in publici commodum exhibetur / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
  • The Fasciculo di medicina, Venice, 1493 / with an introduction etc., by Charles Singer.
  • The Fasciculo di medicina, Venice, 1493 / with an introduction etc., by Charles Singer.
  • The Fasciculo di medicina, Venice, 1493 / with an introduction etc., by Charles Singer.
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
  • An anatomical dissection taking place in a hall decorated with musclemen and human and animal skeletons in niches. Engraving with etching, 1685.
  • Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.
  • A man absurdly well-prepared for the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera. Watercolour, c. 1832.
  • Ancient anatomists in discussion around a cadaver. Engraving by G. Appelmans, 1674.
  • Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.
  • Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.
  • The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers. Engraving, 1687.
  • The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen. Engraving, 1656.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.