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  • Foolish Sam, a mentally defective man in London. Etching by B. Nebot, ca. 1773.
  • William Gladstone as a physician taking the pulse of a man ill with influenza (flu), and giving his diagnosis to the patient's friend (another politician); representing a case of excessive political interference by railway financiers. Lithograph attributed to Sam. B., ca. 1870.
  • A patient exclaiming to his dentist that the cost of having a tooth pulled is the same as his wages for an hour. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
  • Royal Baths : shampooing, Turkish medicated, vapour, sulphur, barege, tepid & shower baths : no. 9, Suffolk Place, Pall Mall East : the original establishment by B. Dominiceti M.D., 1764 is now conducted on the same principles by Mr. Seaman.
  • Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation / Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks, anatomical physiological. By A. B. Granville.
  • Mercurial Air-holder and Breathing Machine. Plate at the begining of Research 1: Concerning the Analysis of Nitric Acid and Nitrous Gas and the Profuction if Nitrous Oxide. Fig 1 Represent a section of the machine, which consists of a strong glass cylinder (A), cemented to one of the same kind (B), fitted to the solid block (C), into which the glass tube (D) is cemented for conveying air into the moveable receiver (E). The brass axis (Fig 2, F) having a double bearing at (a, a) is terminated at one end by the wheel (G), the circumference of which equal to the depth of the receiver, so that it mat be drawn to the surface of the mercury by the cord (b) in one revolution; to the other end is fitted the wheel (H) front view seen in Fig 3...
  • Praxis medica. The practice of physic: or Dr. Sydenham's Processus integri / translated out of Latin into English, with large annotations, animadversions and practical observations on the same.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • Francis Higgins, "The sham squire", defends himself against imputations. Woodcut, 1866.
  • Francis Higgins, "The sham squire", defends himself against imputations. Woodcut, 1866.
  • Francis Higgins, "The sham squire", defends himself against imputations. Woodcut, 1866.
  • Mosquito heads with green fluorescent eyes
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: an educational ward in the Escherich section. Photograph, 1921.
  • Soakage pit on a military camp (?) in Egypt (?); an Arab man pours water into the pit's gutter from a kettle, outside wooden huts. Photograph by J.D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Opera quae hactenus ad nos extant omnia / Per Janum Cornarium ... Latina lingua conscripta. Recens per nos cura exactiore castigata, mendisque nonnullis repurgata.
  • Two physicians outside the bedroom of a desperately sick man: each physician invites the other to enter first. Coloured lithograph by J.B., 18--.
  • Votive offerings: 5 terra cotta model of female breast
  • Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after J. Ihle.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (20 February 1886?)].
  • [Handbill on orange paper advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (27 October 1886?)].
  • Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865/1866.
  • Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865/1866.
  • Three men in a wood, a scene from Molière's play Le médecin malgré luy. Etching after Molière.
  • Portrait of Lawrie.
  • An actor in character; posing in smart attire. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Portrait of Lawrie.
  • An actor in character; posing in smart attire. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Hen infected by syphillis
  • Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865/1866.