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  • Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
  • A surgeon or gynaecologist examining a woman with a vaginal speculum. Drawing by Félicien Rops.
  • A surgeon or gynaecologist examining a woman with a vaginal speculum. Drawing by Félicien Rops.
  • Symbolic image of the liver: Chinese/Korean/Japanese
  • Symbolic image of the spleen: Chinese/Korean/Japanese
  • Symbolic image of the heart: Chinese/Korean/Japanese
  • Symbolic image of the gall bladder: Chinese/Korean/Japanese
  • Symbolic image of the kidneys: Chinese/Korean/Japanese
  • A tree showing the evolution of health care in the twentieth century. Colour print by J. Galloway and R. Richards, 2011.
  • Symbolic image of the lung: Chinese/Korean/Japanese
  • With the compliments of the Imperial Bureau of Animal Health, New Haw, Weybridge.
  • Top left, section of the heart; top right, intestines; centre left and right, hernia; bottom left, carotide; bottom right, speculum. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Marie Louis Félix Lejars. Process print after A. Barrère, 1930.
  • Syphilis. Gouache by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1912.
  • Sailors keeping well by taking "Neverill" remedy. Colour lithograph by R.A., ca. 1900.
  • Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor's bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery". Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910.
  • A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A gloved hand holding up a bird cage inscribed 'Blood bank' containing the HIV virus cell with the warning 'No escape for AIDS'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a division of Johnson & Johnson Limited. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A dripping blood transfusion bag with the warning 'ensure it is AIDS free' and a pink ticket bearing the lettering 'Certified HIV free'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini.