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  • Machines: a crane used at a harbour. Engraving by A. Wilson after A. Slight.
  • X-ray: a dog's hip joints - slight dysplasia
  • A woman's head and shoulders; her mouth shows a slight grimace. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1864.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with injuries to the face, showing slight scarring after plastic surgery. Photograph, 1918.
  • A woman's head and shoulders; her eyes are closed and her mouth shows a slight grimace. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1864.
  • Hints for the improvement of trusses; intended to render their use less inconvenient, and to prevent the necessity of an understrap. With the description of a truss of easy construction and slight expence [sic], for the use of labouring poor / [James Parkinson].
  • A discourse upon prodigious abstinence: occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire demosell: proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat and drink. With an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / By John Reynolds. Humbly offered to the Royall society.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Punishments in camps during the Afghan wars, including flogging, hanging and the shooting of Afghans while tied to a rod. Wood engraving by G. Durand.
  • A wrestler (?) gazing upwards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • A wrestler (?) gazing upwards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • Face of a girl with a keloid on the chin
  • Leprosy: skin
  • Leprosy: skin
  • Leprosy: skin
  • Leprosy: skin
  • Lympho-sarcoma of the anterior mediastinal and bronchial glands
  • Observations on Albertine M...
  • Man with supernumerary nipple above the crest of his right ilium
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • The history of London from its foundation to the present time ... Including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c., within the bills of mortality / By William Maitland, F.R.S.
  • The history of London from its foundation to the present time ... Including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c., within the bills of mortality / By William Maitland, F.R.S.
  • Papilloma of the lip
  • A boy with a wounded thigh seated on a bed; a crutch to his right. Coloured stipple etching by J. Grant after J. Bell, ca. 1815.
  • Girl with ankylosis of both hip-joints
  • Woman with an enlarged left lobe of the thyroid gland