Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.

A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.

Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.

A young homoeopathic doctor converses with his patient. Coloured photolithograph.

The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.

Hope in health : the socio-politics of optimism / Alan Petersen.

Imperial technoscience : transnational histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India / Amit Prasad.

Opinion on the ethical aspects of nanomedicine, Brussels 17 January 2007 / The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission.

Dr. Mütter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine / by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

398 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Discovering new worlds in medicine / [editors, Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli, Alberto M. Marmont du Haut Champ].

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Hope in health : the socio-politics of optimism / Alan Petersen.

Imperial technoscience : transnational histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India / Amit Prasad.

Opinion on the ethical aspects of nanomedicine, Brussels 17 January 2007 / The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission.

Dr. Mütter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine / by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

Discovering new worlds in medicine / [editors, Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli, Alberto M. Marmont du Haut Champ].

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Hope in health : the socio-politics of optimism / Alan Petersen.

Imperial technoscience : transnational histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India / Amit Prasad.

Opinion on the ethical aspects of nanomedicine, Brussels 17 January 2007 / The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission.

Dr. Mütter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine / by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

Discovering new worlds in medicine / [editors, Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli, Alberto M. Marmont du Haut Champ].

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