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  • An alchemist holding tongs at his furnace. Etching by J. Wagner after D. Maggiotto.
  • An alchemist holding tongs at his furnace. Etching by J. Wagner after D. Maggiotto.
  • A hair-dresser accidentally severing a woman's locks with his curling tongs. Coloured lithograph.
  • The gouty George IV using tongs to pass his discarded wig to Wellington; representing the Duke's appointment to office as First Lord of the Treasury. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • A breast operation to remove a lump, in progress: metal surgical tongs hold a lump taken from the breast via an incision in the armpit. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • A barber curling a customer's hair with hot tongs is distracted by an item in the newspaper, consequently burning the man's head. Mezzotint by A.M. Huffam, 1827, after M.W. Sharp.
  • A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A French hair-dresser (his nationality indicated by his bag-wig and ruffles) applying tongs to the hair of his seated customer, a bespectacled politician, who appears alarmed at a paper he is reading. Engraving after S.H. Grimm.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • Master Philip Tonge.
  • Master Philip Tonge.
  • Wang Tong, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Wang Tong, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Wang Tong, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Wang Tong, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Regimen sanitatis Salerni / This boke teachinge all people to governe them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel. whiche boke is amended, augmented, and diligently imprinted.
  • A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
  • A witch placing a scorpion into a pot in order to make a potion. Etching by F. Landerer after M. Schmidt.
  • A witch placing a scorpion into a pot in order to make a potion. Etching by F. Landerer after M. Schmidt.
  • An HIV virus cell representing an information sheet on AIDS and how it is spread with numerous smaller illustrations and text; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India. Colour lithograph by Stephen Marazzi, ca. 1995.
  • A pretty barmaid mixing a drink in a glass. Coloured lithograph, c. 1825.
  • An illustrated fact sheet about what people should know about AIDS. Colour lithograph by the Voluntary Health Assocation of India, ca. 1995.
  • The word 'AIDS' at the top of an illustrated fact sheet about the causes and prevention of AIDS. Colour lithograph by the Voluntary Health Assocation of India and Manipur Voluntary Health Association, ca. 1995.
  • A personified condom waving and explaining in smaller illustrations how to reduce the risk of AIDS; a safe-sex advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar, ca. 1995.
  • A drop of red blood amidst a black cross, star and crescent; set against a splattered pink and black background with a message to donate blood not shed it; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar for VHAI, ca. 1995.
  • Instructions on how to sterilize needles and syringes and a warning about the dangers of needle-sharing and AIDS within the silhouette form of 2 figures in black and grey; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar for VHAI, ca. 1995.
  • Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery 6
  • Sections of a furnace used in the processing of brass. Engraving by Mutlow after J. Farey.