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  • Antiquities from Cyprus. Photograph album by A.P. di Cesnola, 1881.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Chinese manuscript Yu-t'ien Wang Ch'ing-jen chu.
  • Letter from David Livingstone 1841 to 1865
  • A standing man, full-length back view, with elephantiasis of the left leg and probably scrotum, Fiji. Photograph by F.W. O'Connor, 1920/1921.
  • Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Three horses standing near a thatched cottage in the moors. Steel engraving by G. Zobel after E. H. Landseer.
  • Portrait of Jean Cruveilhier, half length
  • Elements of agricultural chemistry, in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture / By Sir Humphry Davy.
  • A rash of eczema on the sole of a foot, showing symptoms of pompholyx. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
  • Smallpox epidemic, Palestine. Photograph album, ca. 1922.
  • Molecular model of renin inhibitor
  • While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, an angel bends a palm tree to provide them with dates. Etching.
  • A family looking at the view across the sea from the first floor balcony of a boarding house. Wood engraving.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • A condom with an open packet and the message in French: "Those who believe there is a vaccine against AIDS - this is what it looks like"; advertisement by Ministére des Affaires Sociales de la Santé et de la Ville. Colour lithograph by M. Descottes, 1995 (?).
  • M. Kalida Afridi. Photograph, 1949.
  • Plate III. The surgical dissection of the thorax and the episternal region. Delegation of the primary aortic branches.
  • A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Two mules seen from behind heavily-laden with huge sacks. Etching.
  • John Collins Warren. Line engraving by S. A. Schoff, 1890, after G. Stuart, 1807.
  • AVERT's AIDS & HIV services : "AVERTing AIDS and HIV" through education and funding medical research / AVERT.
  • Liber pandectarum medicinae / [Matteo Silvatico].
  • Welcome to the new day : morning freshness assured after restful sleep with Doriden.
  • Scutellaria lateriflora (Virginian scullcap)
  • The two angels visitng Lot's house in Sodom pull him back into his house, away from the rapacious, blinded mob. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.
  • Three people are playing musical instruments and singing. Etching.
  • Hebrew manuscript B.1