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Images from the collections

Images about Italy

90 images from works
  • A young woman holds a basket of fruit while another dangles an orange for a baby in a crib to play with and a boy looks on. Engraving by S.S. Smith after C.L. Eastlake.
  • Two women dance the salterello as another plays the tambourine. Lithograph after Mlle. Lescot, 1818.
  • Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.
  • Two women accompanied by a child are washing clothes in a large vessel. Engraving by C. Le Vasseur after G. Gambarini.
  • World War II: hygiene instructions against dysentery and diarrhoea for the British army in Italy. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, 1945.
  • De vita Antonii Musae Brasavoli commentarius historico-medico-criticus / ex ipsius operibus erutus. Ab Aloysio Francisco Castellani.
  • Multi-coloured question-marks with a black silhouette figure jumping off a diving board at the top and appearing to land in a safety ring at the bottom; an advertisement for the Fifth Information campaign on AIDS education with a list of 10 Good standards for health professionals that perform HIV testing; advertisement by the Ministere della Sanità Commisione nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Italian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • A seller of red wine crying up in his wares. Colour lithograph.
  • Dell'historia naturale / di Ferrante Imperato ... Libri XXVIII. Nella qvale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere, e pietre. Con alcune historie di piante, ed animali; sin'hora non date in luce.

Works from the collections

1,909 works

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    Reflections on Italian medical writings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Nancy G. Siraisi.

    Siraisi, Nancy G. | Date: 1983
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    Dizionario overo trattato universale delle droghe semplici, in cui si ritrovano i loro differenti nomi, la loro origine, la loro scelta, i principi, che hanno, le loro qualità, la loro etimologia, e tutto ciò, che v'hà di particolare negli animali, ne' vegetabili, e ne' minerali. Opera dipendente dalla Farmacopea universale scritta in francese / dal Niccolo Lemery ; E tradotta in italiano.

    Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715. | Date: 1737
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    Michele Savonarola : medicina e cultura di corte / a cura di Chiara Crisciani e Gabriella Zuccolin.

    | Date: 2011
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    Le navi di lazzaro : aspetti sanitari dell'emigrazione transoceanica italiana il viaggio per mare / Augusta Molinari.

    Molinari, Augusta. | Date: 1988
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    I santi Cosma e Damiano in Italia : ricerca ed espressione / Ferdinando Maggioni, Giuseppe Maggioni, Dantina Talmelli.

    | Date: [2005]

Related topics

History of Medicine
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Physicians
History, 16th Century
19th-20th centuries
History, 18th Century
Rome
17th century
15th-16th centuries

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