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  • Royal College of Surgeons certificate - Smallpox
  • Period of loan : current journals - 14 days, all other material - 1 month... / Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ... Library.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • Third examination - December 2, 1943 : pharmacology and therapeutics, toxicology, pharmacy / Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ; examiners: R.A.S. Coulter, W.J. Ironside.
  • Veronica officinalis L. Scrophulariaceae Speedwell. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls this the female Fluellen, or Speedwell and Elantine. Pena and Lobel (1570/1) report how a barber cured a man whose nose was being eroded off by giving him Elatine (sic) to drink and by applying a poultice of the crushed herb to the sore - after learned physicians and surgeons had said the only remedy was to cut the nose off. Gerard lists several Veronica
  • Portrait of William Harvey [1578 - 1657], surgeon
  • Portrait of William Harvey [1578 - 1657], surgeon
  • Portrait of William Harvey [1578 - 1657], surgeon
  • Portrait of William Harvey [1578 - 1657], surgeon