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  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Irish journal of medical science.
  • Irish journal of medical science.
  • Irish journal of medical science.
  • Dactylorhiza aff fuchsii Druce ex Soo Orchidaceae Common Spotted orchid. Distribution: Ireland to Mongolia. Roots look like a hand. Coles (1657) calls them Palma Christi sive [or] Satyrion (to distinguish it from Ricinus communis which he calls Palma Christi sive Ricinus. This plant is probably his Female Satyrion and another Dactylorhiza, probably one of the English Marsh orchids, is his Male Satyrion Royal, with purple flowers. In common with Orchis he writes 'The full and plump roots of the Satyrium or Orchis, whereof the Electuary Diasatyrium is made, are of mighty efficacy to provoke to venery, which they that have bulbous roots [meaning the testicle shaped roots of Orchis] do by Signature.'. Terrestrial orchids continue, to be harvested by the millions annually in the Middle East for the production of Salep, including Salep ice cream, because of their mythological aphrodisiacal property. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.
  • A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • 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.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.