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  • A young woman holds a basket of fruit while another dangles an orange for a baby in a crib to play with and a boy looks on. Engraving by S.S. Smith after C.L. Eastlake.
  • Two women dance the salterello as another plays the tambourine. Lithograph after Mlle. Lescot, 1818.
  • Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.
  • Two women accompanied by a child are washing clothes in a large vessel. Engraving by C. Le Vasseur after G. Gambarini.
  • World War II: hygiene instructions against dysentery and diarrhoea for the British army in Italy. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, 1945.
  • De vita Antonii Musae Brasavoli commentarius historico-medico-criticus / ex ipsius operibus erutus. Ab Aloysio Francisco Castellani.
  • Multi-coloured question-marks with a black silhouette figure jumping off a diving board at the top and appearing to land in a safety ring at the bottom; an advertisement for the Fifth Information campaign on AIDS education with a list of 10 Good standards for health professionals that perform HIV testing; advertisement by the Ministere della Sanità Commisione nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Italian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • A seller of red wine crying up in his wares. Colour lithograph.
  • Dell'historia naturale / di Ferrante Imperato ... Libri XXVIII. Nella qvale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere, e pietre. Con alcune historie di piante, ed animali; sin'hora non date in luce.
  • A man wearing a hat with a feather in it is playing the bagpipes. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • A warning that AIDS can be stopped by avoiding casual sex, using condoms, not taking drugs, or used syringes; with the numero verte helpline number; an advertisement by the Ministere della Sanità Commisione nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • [1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
  • Minerva, as goddess of the arts, shaking hands with Italia; behind them Mercury, the messenger god. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1789, after Burney.
  • Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.
  • Evening: shepherds, labourers on their way home after a day of work, followed by two women and a child who cross a stream. Etching by J. Wagner after G. Zocchi.
  • A veiled woman, kneeling, begs for alms before her swaddled baby. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • An Italian landscape; a village in the background; men in the foreground. Engraving by J.B. Chatelain after G. Poussin, 1741.
  • Francisci Ponae Cardiomorphoseos, sive, Ex corde desvmpta emblemata sacra.
  • Bandits armed with guns drink with women outside an Italian country inn; in the foreground are a couple on horseback. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
  • Temple of Vesta or Fortuna Virilis, Rome. Coloured etching.
  • Two men on a journey with three donkeys along a path through rocky terrain: one of the men is tending to the shoes of a donkey as the other man looks on. Etching by J. Visscher after N. Berchem.
  • Baths of Caracalla, Rome: the water heating system. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
  • A giant spider catching crowds of humans in its web; representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by B. Cascella, ca. 1920.
  • An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].
  • Cooking with Italian cheeses / Tesco.
  • Baths of Titus, Rome: floor plan. Coloured pen and ink drawing.
  • Profili bio-bibliografici di medici e naturalisti celebri italiani dal sec. XVo al sec. XVIIIo / [P. Capparoni].
  • A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.