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  • The surprizing life and death of Doctor John
  • A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.
  • A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.
  • A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.
  • A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.
  • Life and death. Oil painting.
  • Animals and human figures manifesting life, death and fancy. Etching by R.C. Lucas, 1838.
  • Arabic geomantic signs, wheel of life and death, the zodiac wheel and the Veronica. Engraving.
  • A young woman holding a skull in her hands; representing life and death. Colour lithograph.
  • When pain is severe DF118 subdues the pain but not the patient : life, death, and the British.
  • When pain is severe DF118 subdues the pain but not the patient : life, death, and the British.
  • Fourteen human skeletons performing activities symbolic of life and death. Engraving, 1740 or 1780, after C. Martínez, ca. 1680 (?).
  • The Buddha Sakyamuni seated on a lotus in a landscape containing scenes of his life and death. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The Buddha Sakyamuni seated on a lotus in a landscape containing scenes of his life and death. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / [E. Sibly].
  • The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / [E. Sibly].
  • The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / [E. Sibly].
  • The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / [E. Sibly].
  • The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / [E. Sibly].
  • An anatomical depiction of the life and death of a foetus frames Adam alone in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.A. Fridrich after J.D. Preissler and M. Füssli after C. Huyberts.
  • The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death. With remarks on the general effects of sea-bathing / [E. Sibly].
  • Observations on obstetric auscultation, with an analysis of the evidences of pregnancy, and an inquiry into the proofs of the life and death of the foetus in utero ... / With an appendix containing legal notes, by John Smith ... Barrister at Law.
  • A two-tone syringe with the words 'VIDAIDS' representing the message that the line that separates life from death is as thin as a needle; an AIDS prevention advertisement by ADG, Gapa and Senac. Colour lithograph by the Graphic Designers Association, 1992.
  • Ancestral effigies, Kafiristan, India. Models of the life-sized figures which are placed outside box graves on hillsides one year after death. Offerings of food, bows and arrows are made to them, and public disasters are attributed to the mishandling of them. The equestrian figures represent males and the seated figures represent females.
  • The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn.
  • A cloaked figure of death bearing the word 'AIDS' on one sleeve and holding syringes that spill blood as if weapons; advertisement for the Sterile Needle Exchange by the Life Foundation Community Health Outreach Program. Colour lithograph.
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have retun'd to life ... with proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
  • The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].