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  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A monkey physician examining a cat patient for fleas. Coloured lithograph.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.
  • Hanuman revealing Rama and Sita in his heart. Watercolour drawing.
  • A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • A monkey (Mitis monkey). Lithograph by Jonathan Kingdon.
  • A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Richard Dickinson, an eccentric man from Scarborough, who imagines he is a king, sitting with his pet fox and monkey. Engraving by G. Vertue after H. Hysing, 1725.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
  • Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving after M. Laroon.
  • Richard Dickinson, an eccentric who imagines himself a wealthy king, from Scarborough. Engraving by Clark after H. Hysing.
  • Two monkeys in feathered caps smoking tobacco. Engraving after D. Teniers.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman, demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving by G. Walker, 1792, after M. Laroon.
  • A monkey (simia apella) walking past its own portrait engraved on stone. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to a large audience in a town square. Engraving.
  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Rama and Sita enthroned with servant and monkey. Lithograph.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor sitting on a donkey with his boxes of medicines, a monkey sits on his shoulder and a boy in a fool's costume blows a trumpet. Watercolour by M. Calisch.
  • Page 131: Hanuman. Gouache drawing.
  • A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A flock of parrots and two monkeys gathered round a fountain in a classical garden. Engraving by P. Casteels, 1726, after himself.
  • A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).