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  • Woman with an enlarged left lobe of the thyroid gland
  • Localized scleroderma (morphea)
  • Adriaan van Cattenburgh. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Mouth with large sublingual cyst
  • German soldiers in World War II representing germs invading a wound, British soldiers representing white corpuscles resisting and capturing them. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943.
  • Swimmer
  • Rheum palmatum (Chinese or Turkey rhubarb).
  • Amoebiasis: x-ray of colon. Photograph, 1930.
  • Enchondroma of the phalanx causing spontaneous fracture
  • A man being restrained in a chair while a doctor and nurse prepare to give him some medicine; referring to English politicians' feelings towards Daniel O'Connell. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1833.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: a young woman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: a young woman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Forearms and hands of a boy suffering from paralysis of the right ulnar nerve
  • Right hand and forearm of a boy suffering from paralysis of the ulnar nerve
  • Youth with coxa vara of the left side
  • Youth with coxa vara of the left side
  • A woman's pelvis after a succesful pubiotomy - a surgical incision of the symphysis pubis generally to widen the birth canal for vaginal delivery. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Fine Pulse (ximai)
  • A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Inverted Lotus pulse
  • Unilateral atrophy of the tongue
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Removing Door pulse
  • China: a litter or palanquin carrying a woman is being transported by two mules across a stream in a rocky pass. Wood engraving by E. Froment after W. Small.
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Long Pulse (changmai)
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Plum rain water
  • On farm land, a young man and young woman turn away from each other in a lovers' quarrel. Engraving by R. Wallis after J.C. Hook.
  • Theory of diseases treated with chaihu guizhi tang, Chinese
  • Chukchi people and housing encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpiniere, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.
  • Rideau Hall, Ottawa: people using a toboggan slide in the presence of the Marquis of Lorne, governor-general of Canada, and his wife Princess Louise. Wood engraving by H. Harral after S.P. Hall.