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  • Above, an Indian tortoise; middle, a variegated tortoise; below, the empty shell of a tortoise. Etching by Heath.
  • Six species of tortoise, including the african land tortoise. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Tortoise: intramuscular injection
  • Tortoise: "shell rot"
  • Tortoise: subcutaneous injection
  • Tortoise: caesarian section
  • Tortoise: fractured shell
  • Tortoise: cloacal prolapse
  • Tortoise: fractured shell
  • Tortoise: caesarian section
  • A normal tortoise.
  • Above, a round tortoise (la ronde); below, a speckled tortoise. Etching by Heath.
  • Normal lungs of a tortoise
  • Tortoise: bacterial infection of plastron
  • Tortoise: bacterial infection of plastron
  • Tortoise: keratitis - bacterial infection
  • Tortoise: diarrhoeic faeces with worms
  • Tortoise: osteomyelitis of the tibia
  • Radiograph: severe pneumonia in tortoise
  • Tortoise: opened stomach with ascarids
  • Tortoise: stomatitis - fungal infection
  • Tortoise: paraphymosis, irritation of cloaca
  • Bacterial infection on tortoise's ear
  • Postmortem of tortoise: severe pneumonia
  • Tortoise: stomatitis - bacterial infection
  • Tortoise: stomatitis - fungal infection
  • Above, a cinerous tortoise seen from above and below; middle, a galeated tortoise seen from above; below, a lettered tortoise seen from above and below. Etching by Hill.
  • A land tortoise. Coloured etching.
  • Tortoise: tympanic membrane - inflammation
  • Above, a mud tortoise; below, profile of a mud tortoise. Coloured etching by G. Edwards after himself.