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

    Spears, Heather, 1934- | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329263i.61
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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    Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

    | Date: 1860-1910 | Reference: 568370i
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    A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Reference: 22594i
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    A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

    Rossi, Carlo, active 1930. | Date: 1930 | Reference: 16021i
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    A man's face with a swelling over his left eye. Drawing.

    | Reference: 32728i
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