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  • Use of a rope system (zip wire) to transport people and goods across the river Tons in the Himalayas. Engraving by H. Jorden after W. Purser after G.F. White.
  • Female genitalia showing severely diseased tissue spreading on to the thighs and anus. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
  • Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster: brain with a defective cerebellum, seen from different angles. Three photographs, 1884.
  • A robber holding a cudgel is leaning against a wall waiting to attack and rob a man who is walking along a path under a full moon. Colour lithograph.
  • Lepromatous leprosy (LL): lymph node
  • Lepromatous leprosy: histoid leprosy
  • Lepromatous leprosy): local (acute) exacerbation reaction
  • Leprosy: skin section
  • Leprosy: acid-fast bacilli
  • Lepromatous leprosy: spleen
  • Leprosy: skin
  • Leprosy: skin section
  • Lepromatous leprosy: local (acute) exacerbation reaction
  • Lepromatous leprosy: histoid leprosy
  • Lepromatous leprosy: local (acute) exacerbation reaction
  • Leprosy: skin biopsy
  • Leprosy: skin section
  • Leprosy: skin biopsy
  • Leprosy: slit-skin smear test
  • Leprosy: dermal nerve
  • Leprosy: dermal nerve
  • Lepromatous leprosy: histoid leprosy
  • A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.
  • Leprosy: skin
  • Diffuse lepromatous leprosy: Lucio phenomenon
  • The Virgin Mary presenting Saint Francis of Assisi with the infant Christ. Engraving by C. Visscher after P.P. Rubens, 16--.
  • Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Men bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.