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  • Genetically engineered food : a serious health risk / Natural Law Party.
  • Genetically engineered food : a serious health risk / Natural Law Party.
  • L. Ercker, The laws of art and nature...
  • Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].
  • Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • A method of studying physick. Containing what a physician ought to know in relation to the nature of bodies, the laws of motion ... and the properties of fluids: chymistry, pharmacy, and botany: osteology, myology ... and dissection: the theory and practice of physick: physiology, pathology, surgery, diet, etc. And the whole Praxis medica interna; with the names and characters of the most excellent authors on all these subjects ... their best editions, and the method of reading them / Written in Latin ... Translated into English by Mr. Samber.
  • Sir Richard Owen. Wood engraving by L. Sambourne, ca. 1884, after Sir E. Landseer.
  • Sir Richard Owen. Wood engraving by L. Sambourne, ca. 1884, after Sir E. Landseer.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Proposed monument to Sir Isaac Newton. Engraving, ca. 1830.
  • Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • The Vestal virgin Tuccia being inspected while carrying water in a sieve to prove her chastity. Etching by P.W. Tomkins,1798, after Sir J. Reynolds.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Dr. Lowder's magneto-electric battery : the great health restorer ; stop taking medicine, and try nature's own remedy: electricity ! / The Magneto-Electric Battery Company.
  • Dr. Lowder's magneto-electric battery : the great health restorer ; stop taking medicine, and try nature's own remedy: electricity ! / The Magneto-Electric Battery Company.
  • Sir Isaac Newton. Line engraving by G. Bickham, senior, 1732.
  • Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • Operators letting blood from the arm of a woman in a room crowded with pharmacy jars. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.