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  • Fungal spores on the surface of a fig, SEM
  • Fungal spores on the surface of a fig, SEM
  • Mould on food
  • Black bread mould (Rhizopus stolonifer)
  • Tongue morphology: Cidi heishe) and heilan zi nie she
  • Tenement building 'Poloni', San Rafael Street, Corner Oquedo, Cuba: an exterior view of the building on laundry day, with the inhabitants outside. Photograph, 1902.
  • Elephant apple plant (Limonia acidissima) with sectioned fruit, and two liver flukes (Fasciola species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1805, after J. Ihle.
  • Lord Glenelg stands in the stocks and receives a hail of rubbish. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.
  • Head of a mealworm, SEM
  • Head of a mealworm, SEM
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery (1)
  • Five mugshots of gay men of different ages with brief descriptions of the freedom of being single; an advertisement by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A rat-catcher in Haarlem with a rat running across his cape, holds out rat poison in his left hand; to the left a boy assistant carries a cage on a long stick with rats in it and hanging off it. Engraving after C. Visscher.
  • A verger's dream; Saints Cosmas and Damian, 1495
  • 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.
  • Physicians disputing while the patient suffers. Oil painting after (?) Johann Geyer.
  • The upper body and head and ways of bandaging them. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • Representatives of four religions, labelled as religious fanatics. Etching.
  • A life in 24 silhouettes of Jan Kwak, a successful quack-doctor. Process print after N. Bodenheim, c. 1900.