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Four scenes with a skeleton: the skeleton directing an astronomer-alchemist, poisoning the drink of lovers, contemplating a flagellant, and taking away a man. Drawings attributed to H.K. Browne [Phiz].

A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by W. Ottley.

World War I: orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps attending to the wounded. Watercolour by D. MacPherson, 1917.

A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.

A woman, the physiognomy of whom expresses attention excited by desire. Drawing, c. 1794.

Head of a boy. Drawing, c. 1794.

A tick (Ixodes reduvius). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

A clock dial on which a skeleton holds an oil lamp. Drawing by Caleb Elwin, 1800.

Muscles of the leg and foot: four figures. Pencil drawing by J. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.

Muscles of the trunk: four figures, including the ribcage and shoulder. Pencil drawing by A. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.

Giuseppe Giacinto Moris. Pencil drawing by C. E. Liverati, 1841.

The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a steeply descending road, with telegraph poles on the left, a wall and fields on the right, huge mountainous waves in the distance. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1978.

A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

A man's face with a swelling over his left eye. Drawing.

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A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

A man's face with a swelling over his left eye. Drawing.

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A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

A man's face with a swelling over his left eye. Drawing.

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