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  • An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.
  • A young man (representing sanctity?) holding the cross and a palm branch leans over a coat of arms; on the ground are two books. Etching by C. Mellan.
  • Claudi Galeni Pergameni Introductio seu medicus. De sectis ad medicinae candidatos opusculum / Guinterio Ioanne Andernaco interprete.
  • Clayton's patent tile, brick and pipe machine.
  • Clymer and Dixon's patent Columbian printing press.
  • Usher's patent steam plough.
  • Booksellers' Provident Retreat rest home, Abbots Langley: the facade. Lithograph after W.H. Cooper.
  • Residents at the Old Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, summer 1854: clockwise from left, John Beddoe (seated left), John Kirk (back row), George Hogarth Pringle (back row), Patrick Heron Watson (back row), Alexander Struthers (seated right), David Christison (seated in front, right), Joseph Lister (seated in front, left). Photograph.
  • (Above) Zeuxis painting the portrait of Juno from the features of five different women; (below) Parrhasius deceives onlookers with a painting of a veil over a painting, and birds with a painting of grapes. Etching by J.J. von Sandrart after J. von Sandrart.
  • The face of a young gay man with the words in French "Boys between them" and "desire, love and sexuality" representing an advertisment for the Association des Jeunes Contre le SIDA (A.J.C.S.) and S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay (Paris, France)]. Lithograph.
  • The beneficial effects of temperance on a man and his family. Lithograph, c. 1840, after Gunthorp.
  • Response of ACh receptors to nifedipine
  • Pancuronium inhibition of ACh receptorsn
  • Sir Richard Croft. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after Sir G. Hayter, 1801.
  • A seated woman personifying history and a man representing time gesturing towards the socle of a pair of columns decorated with portrait ovals; above, Fame holds her trumpet. Engraving by C. Duflos le père, 1725, after J. Desmarets.
  • Alaska: an Inuit medicine man wearing furs, a mask and oversized model hands, standing on the porch of a wooden building with a sick boy. Photograph, 19--.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • The smith Jan Lutma, designated as a portrait of a member of the Molins family. Oil painting after Rembrandt.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • Three women praying to Venus (Aphrodite). Engraving by J.D. Dugourc, 1772, after C. Netscher.
  • A torso, dissected to reveal the liver, stomach and intestines. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543, after A. Vesalius.
  • Saint Luke, writing his gospel. Woodcut by J. Lucius after Virgil Solis.
  • Saint Chrysolius. Engraving by M. Baes (Basse, Bassius), 1619.
  • Detail of a scene at a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • A standing skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his lower right arm on the handle of a spade. Woodcut, 1543.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • A surgeon extracting a tooth. Oil painting after G. Dou.
  • A hurdy-gurdy player standing by the door to a house; the man in the house smokes a pipe at the door, and two children look on. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade.
  • A young man and woman sitting together on a park bench, with a warning against the danger of sexually transmitted disease due to sex with unfamiliar partners. Colour lithograph by G.C. Schulz, ca. 1946.