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  • A druggist, a pharmacy student, a pounder (of medicine), a chemist and a pharmacist. Lithograph by J. Platier, 1842.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: a group of students. Photograph, 1907/1908.
  • The London School of Medicine, Physiology Laboratory. Women students at work, 1899.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students preparing medicine. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • The principles and practice of medicine : designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine / by William Osler.
  • The diseases of infancy and childhood : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Henry Koplik.
  • Edinburgh School of Medicine. Chemical laboratories. Early photograph of students on the roof and out of windows during an election.
  • The diseases of infancy and childhood : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Henry Koplik.
  • The diseases of infancy and childhood : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Henry Koplik.
  • I.P. Pavlov and students in the vivisection room, Physiology Department at the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent designed for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams.
  • The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent designed for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams.
  • The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent designed for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams.
  • The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent designed for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams.
  • The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent : designated for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams.
  • The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent : designated for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams.
  • Rudbeckia triloba L. Asteraceae Orange Cone flower. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. It is named for Olof Rudbeck, father (1630–1702) and son (1660–1740). Olof Rudbeck the Elder was professor of medicine at Uppsala University, and established a botanic garden there. He was the discoverer of the human lymphatic system. His son succeeded his father as professor of medicine, and one of his students was Carl Linnaeus (1707–88) who named the genus Rudbeckia after him and his father. It is a plant which is poisonous to cattle, sheep and pigs with no medicinal uses. Austin (1974) discusses R. hirta, also regarded as a toxic plant. It was used externally by the Cherokee to bathe sores and snakebites and made into a tea for treating diarrhoea. The Seminoles used it for headaches and fever and the Miccosukee for sunstroke and headache. The Cherokee and the Iroquois used it to treat intestinal worms Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A black man holds a condom between his thumb and finger representing an advertisement for an exhibition on The Art of AIDS Education at Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Massachusetts between April 6 - 20, 1992. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Heads of fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, around the programme for Scottish pipe music in honour of the International Ophthalmological Congress. Colour line block after George A. Fothergill, 1894.
  • Certificate: Richmond Hospital School
  • Peony pollen
  • Peony pollen grain
  • M0006889: A man sat at a desk examining a flask, possibly a medical student
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen. Engraving, 1656.
  • Nathan Lacy. Engraving by A. Della Via.
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.