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Christopher Wren making his first demonstration of a method of introducing drugs into a vein, before Dr Willis, 1667. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45901i

Ambroise Paré using the ligature when amputating at the siege of Damvillers, 1552. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45900i

Patrick Manson experimenting with filaria sanguinis-hominis in Amoy (Xiamen), China. Oil painting by E. Board, ca. 1912.

Date

1912

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2087i

Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.

Date

1909

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45905i

Roger Bacon in his observatory at Merton College, Oxford. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45919i

Albucasis blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45909i

Vaccination: "Dr Jenner performing his first vaccination, 1796". Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45906i

Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.

Date

[1912]

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45903i

Anglo-Saxon surgery. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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538271i

World War I: a Scottish soldier, wearing the kilt, lying wounded on a battlefield. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1916/1918.

Date

1916-1918

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Mundinus, the Italian anatomist, making his first dissection in the anatomy theatre at Bologna, 1318. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45917i

An invocation to I-em-hetep, the Egyptian deity of medicine. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45913i

Guy de Chauliac bandaging the leg of Pope Clement VI at Avignon, while Petrarch, his enemy, jealous of his influence, watches him, ca. 1348. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45912i

William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation of blood before Charles I. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45902i

Lavoisier explaining to his wife the result of his experiments on air. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45915i

The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

Date

1900-1999

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45904i

The Abbaye of Saint Antoine, the Sologne, France. Pilgrims suffering from ergotism (St Antony's fire) approaching the infirmary in which the relics and bones of the saint are preserved which were believed to cure the disease. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45910i

Rhazes (Rāzī), Persian physician and alchemist, in his laboratory at Baghdad. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1912.

Date

1912

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45898i

Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45899i

A surgeon anaesthetising one of his patients, spectators in the background. Watercolour attributed to Ernest Board, ca. 1912.

Date

[1912?]

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The discovery of quinine, 1820. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 191-.

Date

1910-1919

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45907i

Patients sleeping in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45918i

Albertus Magnus expounding his doctrines of physical science in the streets of Paris ca. 1245. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45916i

The healing art in pre-historic times. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45914i

Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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45911i