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  • Clocks: composite pendulum, side and front view with details. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.
  • Clocks: composite pendulum, side and front view with details. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Clocks: diagrams of water-clocks. Engraving, c. 1861.
  • Higham Ferrers Church and Free-School, Northamptonshire, England. Line engraving.
  • Clocks: jigs for spring-coiling (top), and cog-placing (below). Engraving by Lachaussé after L.J. Goussier.
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: a chronometer, face (top) and mechanism (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Clocks: various pocket watches, and details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.
  • Clocks: an escapement mechanism. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.
  • Clocks: faces (top), and mechanisms (below) of a Ferguson (right), and a Smeaton-Franklin clock (left). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • A young woman comes to visit a sick young man in hope that her love will cure him, surrounded by relatives. Line engraving by J. Goodyear after P.E. Destouches.
  • Clocks: various views of a clock mechanism. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • A male-midwife suggestively examines an attractive pregnant woman, her disgruntled husband is led out of the room by a servant. Line engraving, 1773.
  • Clocks: a Ferguson clock, face (right), and diagrams of the mechanism (left). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Diagrams for setting-out a dial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.
  • Clocks: the mechanism of a chiming clock. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Clocks: diagrams of the motions of composite pendulums. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Richard Stevens's Hospital and Asylum, Frome, Somerset. Line engraving by J. Lambert, 1805.
  • Fentazin is the ideal tranquiliser for agitation in older patients : complicated astronomical dial clock c. 1764.
  • The death of the Emperor Friedrich III in San Remo: the doctors gathered in another room to discuss the case. Wood engraving by P. Naumann after A. Forestier, 1888.
  • A male-midwife suggestively examines an attractive pregnant woman, her disgruntled husband is led out of the room by a servant. Line engraving, 1773.
  • Saint Jerome in his study. Oil painting.
  • A young woman is brought to visit a sick young man in the hope that her love will cure him; relatives and attendants are present. Coloured lithograph by Lafosse after P.-E. Destouches, ca. 1850/1879.
  • Triptafen-Minor treats both the anxiety and any underlying depression : sun and moon clock circa 1680.
  • Clocks: an elaborate astronomical mantel clock. Coloured lithograph, [c.1875?].
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.