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A man operating a specially designed hydrotherapeutic chair. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.

Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe. Wood engraving by L. Dumont.

Thomas Henry Huxley. Wood engraving by [T. S.], 1870, after Bassano [?].

Sir Morrell Mackenzie. Wood engraving by [A. B.] 1888.

Hippocrates. Wood engraving by Meyner-Hein after C. Kreutzberger.

A man taking a shower as part of a hydrotherapeutic cure. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.

Portrait of Robert Herman Koch [1843 - 1910], bacteriologist

Elie Metchnikoff. Wood engraving.

Sir Richard Owen. Wood engraving by L. Sambourne after Sir E. Landseer.

Edward Linley Sambourne

Sir Morrell Mackenzie. Coloured wood engraving by [C. H.], 1888.

Arthur Trehern Norton. Wood engraving by [C. P.].

Thomas Henry Huxley. Coloured wood engraving, 1870.

Henry Bence Jones. Wood engraving by R. & E. Taylor, 1873, after [S. T.].

Contributions to practical gynecology : illustrated with sixteen wood engravings

Donaldson, S. James

Date: 1882

A man being shot in the mouth by two little demons; representing the start of toothache. Wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.

Hercules. Six wood engravings by C. Bisson and Cottard after Rivaud.

Textiles: four vignettes of stages in preparation of linen from flax. Wood engravings.

Unveiling of a statue to Marie-Francois-Xavier Bichat. Wood engraving by Jayer after E. Riou and Beranger [?].

A grumpy nurse carrying a bowl and candle-stick. Wood engraving.

A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby for the first month after the birth. Wood engraving by Orrin Smith, ca. 1840, after Kenny Meadows.

Joseph Kenny Meadows

St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London: seven views. Wood engravings by T. Gilks after W.A.Delamotte, 1847.

Delamotte, W. A.

Date: 1847

A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.

Charles Robert Darwin. Wood engraving by T. Johnson, 1883, after L. Darwin, 1874.

A wealthy and well-dressed doctor; suggesting he has a large number of patients. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J.K. Meadows, 1840.

Joseph Kenny Meadows

A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: various views and portraits. Wood engravings by E. Gilks after W. A. Delamotte, 1847.

Delamotte, W. A.

Men and dogs are in a snowy landscape with three hot-air balloons. Coloured wood engravings by C.R.

People out walking and riding in extremely windy weather on top of the Brecon Beacons. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.

St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London: four views. Wood engravings by T. Gilks and J. S. Heaviside after W.A. Delamotte, 1847.

Delamotte, W. A.

Date: 1847

Four scenes of work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, c. 1877, after photographs by Muybridge.

Suppressed plates, wood engravings, &c., together with other curiosities germane thereto : being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector

Layard, George Somes, 1857-1925.

Date: 1907

Poultry that are healthy as a result of taking Smith's egg and health producer (chicken feed). Wood engravings with letterpress (?), ca. 189-.

Dr. H. M. Smith Med. Co.

Date: [189?-?]

Four scenes of work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, c. 1877, after photographs by E. Muybridge.

People sliding down a hill in Malvern. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.

Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; natives building a church. Wood-engravings.

Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.

Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903.

Ozone and antozone : their history and nature. When, where, why, how is ozone observed in the atmosphere? Illustrated with wood engravings, lithographs, and chromo-lithographs

Fox, Cornelius B.

Date: 1873

On the nature and structural characteristics of cancer, and of those morbid growths which may be confounded with it. ... Illustrated with numerous steel plates and wood engravings

Müller, Johannes, 1801-1858.

Date: 1840

Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners filing into the entrance to the west Dining Hall, right, beating the tattoo at sunset. Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.

Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903.

Queen's College, Oxford: in the sixteenth century. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.

Jackson, John, 1801-1848.

Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India. Wood engraving, 1863.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.

People walking around inside a belfry, looking at the bells and striking mechanism. Wood engraving by T. Heaviside after B. Sly.

Saint Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, seen from the south with the Palace of Westminster in the background. Wood engraving by T. Sulman.

Sulman, T., active 1855-1900.

A man is holding a swish in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys, a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of one of the wards, with some càbbins' and several pensioners. Wood engraving.

Geography: avalanches. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Whymper, Charles H., 1853-1941.

A new-born baby about to receive its first bath. Wood engraving.

A large bridge is suspended over a river and a train is travelling on it. Wood engraving.

The Royal College of Physicians, Trafalgar Square: Sir James Alderson delivering the Harveian lecture. Wood engraving, 1854.

Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across a river to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan.

Crimean War: wounded sailors convalescing at Haslar Hospital. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin after J. Mayall.

Mayall, J. E. 1813-1901.

Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

An ideal landscape of the Miocene period, with elephants rummaging through a forest. Wood engraving by Riou after Cazat.

Architecture: wrought iron lock. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1846, after E. H.

A homeless family are pulling a covered wagon up a steep mountain side, on the path they pass two priests in cassocks, carrying crosses. Wood engraving after M. Schmid.

Funeral monument to Sir John Franklin in the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hospital. Wood engraving.

Design for a monument to be erected on Leskudjack Hill, Penzance, to the memory of Sir Humphry Davy. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley.

Walmsley, John, active 1839-1878.

A roebuck standing in a forest clearing. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.

Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.

Episodes in the trial of Dr. G. H. Lamson (the Wimbledon poisoner) at the Central Criminal Court in 1882. Wood engraving.

The Middlesex Hospital: seen from the south. Wood engraving, 1837.

Paine, James, 1717?-1789

Dissections of the male genital and rectal area: two figures. Coloured wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?

Men engaged in the grinding of razor blades, the grinding wheels belt driven from overhead shafts. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.

Palmer, John, active 1856-1887.

Date: 20 Jan 1866

Bryncoch school and church, Glamorgan, Wales. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1858, after G. Truefitt.

Hodgkin, W. E., active 1853-1879.

Date: 30 January 1858

A Moorish bath at Tunis. Wood engraving.

Bagnigge Wells: the exterior, after a print made in 1780. Wood engraving by [W.H.P.].

Crimean War: appalling conditions as seen in the interior of the Russian Hospital in Sebastopol. Wood engraving after E.A. Goodall, 1855.

Goodall, Edward A.

Date: 6 October 1855

Two women are walking out of a kitchen and a man is shouting after them as some things fall from the tray one of them is carrying. Wood engraving.

The painter Hugo van der Goes with onlookers and a group of choir boys singing. Wood engraving, 1890, after E.C. Wauters.

Wauters, Emile Charles, 1846-1933.

Date: 1890?

Young black children being tied with their wrists to a wooden pole and attached to camels and donkeys are being led away, presumably into slavery. Wood engraving.

Two men are carrying a sedan chair between them along a road, others walk behind with yokes across their shoulders. Wood engraving.

The oriental baths at Victoria Street, Westminster. Wood engraving.

The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London: the main facade. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after D. R. Warry, 1872.

Warry, Daniel Robert, active 1855-1913.

A man is beating at a piece of metal in his hand, around him are the items he has made. Wood engraving.

Women are making the nets, baskets and balloons for hot-air balloons, they are being inspected by men in top hats. Wood engraving by WBM after W.I.P.S. (?).

'Malay opium smokers'

Presbyterian college, Belfast. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1852, after B. Sly after C. Lanyon.

Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.

Date: 7 August 1852

Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.

Wood engraving, Ambroise Pare, 1564.

Westminster Abbey: interior of Henry VII's chapel. Wood engraving by J. Jackson after W.F. Smallwood, 1843.

Smallwood, W.F.

Date: [1843]

Humerus bone: two figures, anterior and posterior views. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?

Date: [1860?/1900?]

Abyssinian water-girls carrying water to a camp. Wood engraving by P.F. Durand.

Durand, Philippe-Fortuné, 1798-1876.

Three hot-air balloons travel over a snowy landscape. Coloured wood engraving by E. Roberts.

Hand painted wood engraving

A barber dressing a man's hair. Wood engraving by C. Maorand (?).

The interior of a Chinese barber-shop, in California. Wood engraving.

Geography: Victoria Falls, seen from a distance. Wood engraving.

Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.

Aurora Borealis. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Charles H. Whymper

The Hertford British Hospital, Paris. Coloured wood engraving, 1879.

Date: 1879

Bond Street Homeopathic Dispensary, New York. Coloured wood engraving.

A vehicle with two large and two small wheels and a man sitting between the two larger ones; there are two horses below him and people are travelling in a box situated between the two smaller wheels. Wood engraving.

Pilgrimage to the church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges: the Virgin sends an angel to liberate three travellers. Wood engraving by T. Hildibrand after Bertrand.

Bones of the skull: two figures. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?

Date: [1860?/1900?]

Health of Towns Association Meeting, 1847.

Architecture: two designs for door knockers. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing after W. H. Rogers, 1850.

A Japanese woman at her toilet being attended by two maidservants. Wood engraving by E. Morin.

Morin, Edmond, 1824-1882.

A small cottage in the countryside with a view of the nearby church, towards which people are walking. Colour wood engraving.

A woman holding up a canopy attached to a bathing machine; two women are peering out. Wood engraving.

Sir Robert Peel's Grammar School, Tamworth, Staffordshire: with architectural details. Wood engraving by Laing, 1851, after S. Smirke.

Laing, C. D. active 1838-1853.

Date: 30 August 1851

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