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  • 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.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jean Misaubin and his family. Gouache painting by Joseph Goupy, 172-.
  • Jean Misaubin and his family. Gouache painting by Joseph Goupy, 172-.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.
  • Johann Gottfried Matthes (Mathes), a "natural healer", taking the pulse of a patient suffering from the dropsy. Etching, 1784.
  • An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.