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  • Mechanical exercise, a means of cure : being a description of the Zander Institute, London, its history, appliances, scope, and object / edited by the medical officer of the institution.
  • Mechanical exercise, a means of cure : being a description of the Zander Institute, London, its history, appliances, scope, and object / edited by the medical officer of the institution.
  • Sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata (L.) Scop.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate rootstock and flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering stems arising from earth mound with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering plants rooted in joints of stone wall with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Pomander & toilet instruments, ear scoop and toothpick.
  • Poop scoop campaign / Lewisham Directorate of Environmental Services ; Contracts Management Group.
  • Pomander with three toilet instruments attached. Silver. Includes toothpick and ear-scoop.
  • Poop scoop campaign / Lewisham Directorate of Environmental Services ; Contracts Management Group.
  • Scoop the poop! : clear up after your dog / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office.
  • Scoop the poop! : clear up after your dog / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office.
  • Civil engineering: a steam-powered dredger in side elevation and plan, with details of the scoop. Engraving by Gray & son after G. Whitelaw.
  • A man in traditional Chinese dress scoops faeces (for vegetable fertilisation) from a well with a wooden ladle, Kuching Sarawak, Borneo. Photograph by A.R. Wellington, 1908.
  • A man collecting human faeces to be used as manure: with a wooden barrel on his back, carrying a scoop and a lantern. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A man collecting human faeces to be used as manure: with a wooden barrel on his back, carrying a scoop and a lantern. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A clothed woman bends to scoop up a ball with a tennis racquet held in her right hand, hits the ball upwards, catches it with her left hand then swings the racquet back behind her. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman scoops up a ball with a tennis racquet held in her right hand, catches it with her left, then hits the ball away, bends to pick up a ball, walks, picks up a ball again, turns then smiles. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Left, a small man (a dwarf?) lifts a horse's tail with a bamboo rod to catch its faeces in a scoop; above right, a man with filarial elephantiasis is helped to carry his enlarged scrotum supported with a sling; below right, a woman carrying a baby on her back points in amazement. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
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  • Endoscopic examination of a patient's gut by Dr A.I. Morris, Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.
  • A prisoner is sitting on straw in a cave with his feet chained to the wall, there are a few provisions on a small shelf in the rock. Etching by R. Blyth after J.H. Mortimer.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1814.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with colour fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: a fabric sample mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1813.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1812.
  • Textiles: three fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1815.
  • A world map highlighting the numbers of adults infected with HIV, issued by the World Health Organization (WHO). Colour lithograph, 1994.