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  • V.P. Thomas à B.V. Etching.
  • Peter, the wild boy. Mezzotint by V. Green after P. Falconet.
  • Ancient Roman (?) bronze surgical instruments: ten figures. Etching by P. Amendola after V. Mollame, 18--?.
  • The temptation of Saint Antony Abbot. Etching by G.P. Lasinio after V. Gozzini after D. Teniers.
  • A man in a white suit smoking by the sea. Colour process print after P.V. Bradshaw, 1908.
  • A man in a white suit smoking by the sea. Colour process print after P.V. Bradshaw, 1908.
  • Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. Engraving by G.P. Lasinio after V. Gozzini after G.A. Bazzi, il Sodoma.
  • The presentation of the infant Christ at the temple. Etching by V. Lefebvre after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin): design for a shrine. Engraving by V. Regnard after P. Berrettini [Pietro da Cortona].
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Line engraving by P. Bettelini after V. Gozzini after C. Allori.
  • Dissections of the pregnant uterus at five months: two figures. Copperplate engraving by P.C. Canot after J.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • The feast in the house of Simon the Pharisee: on the far right Mary Magdalene washes Christ's feet. Etching by V. Lefebvre after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • Dissections showing parts of the pregnant uterus, decidua and ovum at nine months: five figures. Copperplate engraving by P.C. Canot after J.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • A man performing a chemical procedure is approached from behind behind by another man who strangles him with a scarf. Process print by V&C after P. Chase.
  • Dissection of the pregnant uterus at five months, showing the placenta and the cervix, in relation to the bladder and urethra. Copperplate engraving by P.C. Canot after J.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • Front view of a pregnant uterus, taken from a woman who died of 'a flooding' in the ninth month of pregnancy. Copperplate engraving by P. Maleuve (Maleuvre?) after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • The outer forepart of the uterus, the inside of the placenta and a portion of the internal surface of the uterus: three figures. Copperplate engraving by P.C. Canot after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • Table illustrating the 'laws of variation', a fold out illustration after p.168, Chapter V of The Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin, Imp: London: John Murray, 1859
  • First aid memory chart : designed for A.R.P. first aid workers & learners / by Harold E. Palmer, D. Litt. & W. Rougier Chapman, Surgeon Lieut. Commander R.N.V.R. ; approved by the St. John Ambulance Association.
  • The poet P.J. Béranger at the age of twenty sits on the bed in his garret while his girfriend Lisette covers the window with a shawl in the lack of a curtain. Engraving by C.L.V. Mauduit, 1847, after H. Pauquet.
  • Elisha Kent Kane. Wood engraving by [P. U. P. ?] & Pager after E. Etherington.
  • Alpacas grazing in Peru. Lithograph by P S Duval & Co after Lieut L Gibbon, U.S.N.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Business reply service licence no. K1-52 : simply in the lead : Russell pH Ltd., Station Road, Auchtermuchty, Fife, U.K. KY14 7DP.
  • Business reply service licence no. K1-52 : simply in the lead : Russell pH Ltd., Station Road, Auchtermuchty, Fife, U.K. KY14 7DP.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 62nd session, group portrait- including N. Cheua, A.K. Cosgrove, J.A. Cruickshank, Gray, J., A.L. Gregg, W.P. Hogg, M.K. Abdul Khalik, E.U. MacWilliam, M. Jackson, Dr. G.C. Low, E.G. Mack, Miss Turner, R.T. Leiper, J.S. Maxwell, Dr. Sambon, G.A.S. Madgwick, E.J. Wood, G. Warren, Dr. P. Manson-Bahr.
  • A mandala-like shape with concentric circles of ecstasy pills of various sizes, colours and brands, with a red condom in the centre; representing risk factors for AIDS. Colour lithograph by concept x, 199-.
  • Smoking in the Soviet Union: the smoke of a cigarette contains a rocket blasting off from its launchpad; advertising non-smoking by cosmonauts. Colour lithograph after A.V. Koroteev and A.G. Rudkovich, 1988.