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  • A person discovering that they have been transformed into several kinds of vegetables the morning after taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Mezzotint after W. Hogarth, 1736.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • The dance of death: the catchpole. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An alchemist peacefully writing in a room strewn with papers. Engraving by V.A.L. Texier after F. Giani after T. Wyck.
  • Ocular leprosy: complications
  • A funeral procession entering a church. Etching by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Manufacture of artificial limbs in Glasgow for Scottish servicemen injured in World War I. Photograph album by Yarrow & Co. Ltd.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Jean Misaubin and his family. Gouache painting by Joseph Goupy, 172-.
  • Jean Misaubin and his family. Gouache painting by Joseph Goupy, 172-.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Memphis, Egypt: English travellers trapped in catacombs find the bodies of two Italian men who had previously been trapped there, and had starved to death: they fire their pistols at six ghostly figures; Arabs steal their horses. Etching with engraving by E. Kirkall, 1709.
  • Swatow (Shantou), Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: Chinese labourers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Swatow (Shantou), Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: Chinese labourers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Crowds of people are gathered in the streets around fishmonger stalls. Etching.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.