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  • A man designated as Dr William Hunter. Oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • Newton found that everyone was colour blind! : The routine urine information system, Bili-Labstix + Urobilitstix.
  • Newton found that everyone was colour blind! : The routine urine information system, Bili-Labstix + Urobilitstix.
  • The first thread of contact ... / Diabetic information systems Clinitest + Clinistix.
  • The first thread of contact ... / Diabetic information systems Clinitest + Clinistix.
  • King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, Sussex: nurses and medical staff (?) about to dine. Photograph, 1907.
  • A chemist and his assistant as "puffers" heating a substance in a retort; representing a theatre critic who "puffs" the actor Joseph Holman at the bidding of his editor. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1786.
  • A surgeon at Whitworth in County Durham letting blood from Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, but leaving his patient in order to attend to a sick horse. Coloured etching by H.W., 1791.
  • Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds.
  • Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds.
  • A riot at the King's theatre, Haymarket, London, on 1 May 1813. Coloured etching by W.H. Brooke after Satirist, 1813.
  • The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion.
  • A table of the springs of action : shewing the several species of pleasures and pains, of which man's nature is susceptible: together with the several species of interests, desires, and motives, respectively corresponding to them: and the several sets of appellatives, neutral, eulogistic and dyslogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be designated: to which are added explanatory notes and observations ...
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • May Prinsep as Christabel. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1866.
  • May Prinsep as Christabel. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1866.
  • The comedian James Spiller is selling tickets under a giant set of scales which is weighing the actor's debts against his proceeds from theatre tickets. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.
  • Edmund Taylor. Lithograph by T. Crane.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • Bethlem Hospital, London: the incurables being inspected by a member of the medical staff, with the patients represented by political figures. Drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, 1789.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.
  • Headingley, Yorkshire: St Michael's Church and the Shire Oak. Photograph by F. Frith, 1897.
  • John Daubeny, a centenarian, holding a 1 year old boy. Photograph, ca. 1922.
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • The Clifford hair restorer / sole proprietor and manufacturer: W.B. Mason ; sold by Taylors' Drug Co. Ltd.