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Albucasis (Al-Zahrwawi) blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova, 1000 CE : oil painting by Ernest Board : no. 45909i / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.

Patients sleeping in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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

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

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

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

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Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.

Images from the collections

Images by Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.

Works from the collections

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.

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

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