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  • The earliest known Chaldean deity associated with healing. A statue in the possession of the British Museum.
  • Sir William Osler memorial number : appreciations and reminiscences / edited by Maude E. Abbott.
  • A collection of architectural fragments, called the Architectural Museum, in the loft of a building at Cannon Row, Westminster. Wood engraving by C. W. Sheeres after J. Brown, 1854.
  • Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy, Roderick Random apprentice to Mr Lavement watches the scene with amusement. Etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett.
  • Société Zoologique de France: the zoologist Charles Schlumberger looking at sea-creatures through a stethoscope, with Jules Richard as a sailor looking on, illustrating the menu of the society's dinner. Line block by J.T.C., 1903.
  • A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.
  • German soldiers in World War II representing germs invading a wound, British soldiers representing white corpuscles resisting and capturing them. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943.
  • A man sits with a woman on a bench looking out to sea while holding the hand of a man sitting on the end; an advertisement for The Women Partners of Bisexual Men Project with the telephone lines of the AIDS Council of NSW, AIDS Hotline and Family Planning Association. Colour lithograph, [1994].
  • Two humeral heads affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (posterior view)
  • Two femoral heads affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (posterior view)
  • Two femoral heads affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (anterior view)
  • Two humeral heads affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (anterior view)
  • Dissected left elbow joint, affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy
  • Bones of right hand illustrating the appearances associated with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy
  • Right ulna and radius affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (anterior view)
  • Right ulna and radius affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (posterior view)
  • Right tibia and fibula affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (anterior view)
  • Right tibia and fibula affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (posterior view)
  • A man playing the violin with the instrument representing his face. Etching attributed to Cruikshank.
  • Lower end of a femur affected by pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (anterior view)
  • Lower end of right femur affected with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy (posterior view)
  • Hands and legs of a patient with pulmonary osteo-arthropathy
  • Man with hypertrophic pulmonary osteo-arthropathy
  • A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • Two elderly women in bed, disturbed from sleep by a nightmare vision of "The monster" (R. Williams), 1790. Drawing.
  • The emblematic figure of a man representing secularisation, technical innovation, educational reforms and liberal politics in the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • The death of Sapphira (?). Pen and ink drawing after a hypothetical drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn and one of his students.
  • The death of Sapphira (?). Pen and ink drawing after a hypothetical drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn and one of his students.
  • William Hunter. Line engraving, 1783.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.