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

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

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

Date

1912

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

Date

1909

William Gilbert demonstrating the magnet before Queen Elizabeth, 1598. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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

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

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

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

Date

[1912]

Anglo-Saxon surgery. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Date

1900-1999

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.

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

Date

1912

Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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

Date

[1912?]

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

Date

1910-1919

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

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

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