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  • Patients sleeping in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • Aesculapius. Engraving by I. Wagner after Antonio Maria (Girolamo) Zanetti and Antonio Maria (Alessandro) Zanetti.
  • Iris, Aesculapius and Flora routing death. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 1737, after J.W. Baumgartner.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Two roundels: above, a man supported by his wife and children prays before an altar of Aesculapius; below, a garland of medicinal plants, and angels representing pharmacy and botany. Coloured engraving by P. Lenormand, ca. 1830, partly after N. Guérin.
  • The infant Aesculapius discovered by shepherds on a mountain. Watercolour painting by R. Dadd, 1851.
  • Aesculapius, representing medicine, receives homage from putti who bring him symbols of botany, natural history, chemistry and anatomy. Engraving by A. Nunzer, 1748.
  • A statue of a physician as Aesculapius whose shadow forms the shape of a donkey. Pen drawing by Gay-again, 1831.
  • Aesculapius. Etching by V. Dague after Vauthier.
  • A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
  • Aesculapius: the Greek god of healing: his head in bas-relief on a marble soda fountain in use in the Baildon & Son pharmacy, Edinburgh. Photograph by Francis Caird Inglis, 1920/1935, of a sculpture, 1860.
  • The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens : Two lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / by Richard Caton.
  • The front entrance of Guy's Hospital, with statues of Aesculapius and Hygieia above the arches. Photograph.
  • Carolus Linnaeus receives honour from Aesculapius, Flora, Ceres and Cupid. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Caldwall, 1806, after J. Russell and J. Opie.
  • Two roundels: above, a man supported by his wife and children prays before an altar of Aesculapius; below, a garland of medicinal plants, and angels representing pharmacy and botany. Coloured engraving by P. Lenormand, ca. 1830, partly after N. Guérin.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Christoph Horch. Line engraving by J.E. Gericke.
  • Aesculapius. Embroidery.
  • The discovery of herbal medicines, their transport by ship from the East Indies and their presentation to the pagan deities. Engraving after Adolf van der Laan, 1741.
  • Temple of Aesculapius, Spalato (Split). Engraving by F. Bartolozzi.
  • A medallion of the head Aesculapius (?) in profile, with the staff of Aesculapius. Drawing.
  • A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
  • God's protection in various forms of distress: the angel of the Lord guides Moses and Aaaron who lead the people on a journey; good weather after a thunderstorm; a man prays for a doctor to be called to a sick bed. Etching.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
  • Reginald McKenna as British Home Secretary asking Æsculapius for help with the microbe "Militancy"; referring to political militancy. Wood engraving.
  • Aesculapius and Telesphorus. Etching by N. Dorigny.
  • An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.