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  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Charles Bradlaugh being arrested by the police in 1881 for refusing to take the oath as a Member of Parliament, and subsequently rejoicing at the passage of his Oaths Bill in 1888. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1888.
  • At a polling booth, reserve voters, consisting of disabled and sick men and others, proceed up the stairs to take oaths; in the background Britannia sits in a coach that has broken down while the coachman and footman play at cards. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Morellon de la Cave, 1758.
  • Three headed Osiris taking an oath, Phallic worship.
  • The doctor's oath : an essay in the history of medicine / by W.H.S. Jones.
  • The doctor's oath : an essay in the history of medicine / by W.H.S. Jones.
  • A Chinese man taking an oath before a shrine to the god Paak-tai, while another man prepares to decapitate a cock. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • The oath of Henri de Guise: he and his mother look at a painting of the assassination of his father, and vow revenge. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Rousseau after P.-C. Comte, 1864.
  • Oath of the Tennis Court: the deputies of the third estate meeting in the tennis court at the Château de Versailles with Bailly presiding, swearing not to disperse until a constitution is assured. Colour lithograph by E. Letellier.
  • Oath of the Tennis Court: the deputies of the third estate meeting in the tennis court at the Château of Versailles, swearing not to disperse until a constitution is assured. Etching by L-F. Couché after J. L. David.
  • A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgery. Wherin is exactly set down the definitions, causes, accidents, prognostications and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Whereunto is added the rule of making remedies which chyrurgions doe commonly use, with The Presages [and Oath] of divine Hippocrates / [Peter Lowe].
  • A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.
  • A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.
  • Opuscules de divers autheurs médecins, redigez ensemble pour le proufit et utilité des chirurgiens [par Jean Canappe]. Reveuz & corrigez de nouveau, avec leur indice.
  • The "American Pledge" for total abstinence surrounded by an ornate border. Lithograph, c. 1860 (?).
  • Serment d'Hippocrate, précédé d'une notice sur les sermens en médecine / Par J.R. Duval.
  • Serment d'Hippocrate, précédé d'une notice sur les sermens en médecine / Par J.R. Duval.
  • A triumphal arch in the Hague in honour of King William III, containing paintings of his deeds. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1691.
  • An Indian sadhu with very long fingernails is holding his arm up above his head. Ink drawing with pencil and watercolour by WB.
  • Three pink naked men stand holding their hands together with leaves covering their genitals; advertising The Hot Rubber Company (Zürich), makers of condoms. Colour lithograph by Pfeffer und Salz, ca. 1992.
  • A female barber shaving a man; a male assistant standing on the right holds a "puff lather" bowl. Coloured etching, 1787.
  • Tom Idle and Francis Goodchild, once colleagues meet at a session of the court of justice; Idle is a pleading defendant while Goodchild wearing the furred robe and chain of an alderman is the acting magistrate. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.
  • An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.
  • An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.
  • An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.
  • The Dunmow Flitch: a procession of people follow the winning couple who are being carried in a chair on the shoulders of four men while others walk in front carrying a piece of bacon on a stick. Engraving by C. Mosley after D. Ogborne, 1751.