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  • A man extracting a tooth from the mouth of another man by pulling a string attached to the tooth; after or in the style of Tim Bobbin (John Collier, 1708-1786)
  • Karl Christopher Elsen (1649-90) M.D. Nuremberg, Physician at Kulmbach
  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • A queen or empress administering a healing balm to a person with leprosy (?). Photograph of a wallpainting in the chapel in Eton College.
  • A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by W. Ottley.
  • Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin : mediko-kunsthistorisches Studie / von Eugen Holländer.
  • Rapture from Le Brun, Bowles's Passions
  • The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.
  • Electricity: an electrometer attached to an electro-static generator. Engraving, 1769.
  • James David Forbes. Lithograph by W. H. Townsend.
  • Arabum medicorum principis / Avicennae ; [Canon medicinae.] Ex Gerardi Cremonensis versione et Andreae Alpagi Bellumensis castigatione. À Joanne Costaeo et Joanne Paulo Mongio annotationibus iampridem illustratus. Nunc vero ab eodem Costaeo recognitus, et novis alicubi observationibus adauctus ... vita ostaeo & Joanne Paulo Mongio annotationibus iampridem illustratus ... Vita ipsius Avicennae ex Sorsano Arabe eius Discipulo, à Nicolao Massa latine scripta, et figuris quibusdam ex priori nostra editione sumptis. Additis nuper etiam liborum Canonis oeconomiis, necnon tabulis isagogicis in universam medicinam ex Arte Humain, idest Joannitii Arabis. Per Fabium Paulinum Utinensem.
  • James Hunter. Photograph.
  • Hooker's Malted Milk (in soluble powder) : delicious & nutritious, highest quality / Thew, Hooker & Gilbey, Ltd.
  • If you can't be a buddy : be a friend / LASS.
  • A man holding a trumpet, with flowers, celebrating Saint Cecilia's day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1931.
  • Manuscript of John Banister (1533-1610)
  • A condom with a message in English and Chinese about safe sex and the risk of AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Bleaching: racks and cauldrons for drying bleached cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Sir Astley Paston Cooper. Stipple engraving.
  • Radiograph: hand in glove in primary beam.
  • Cuando el vómito es incontrolable prescriba Bonamina ... : Terramicina SF, Tetracyna SF ... suprime más rápidamente la infección, favorece la convalencia / Laboratorios Pfizer, S.A.
  • World War I: orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps attending to the wounded. Watercolour by D. MacPherson, 1917.
  • Women now... Take Care / HIV/AIDS Team, Lothian Health Board.
  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • Victor Mouth Lamp for use upon the commercial current. Fig 155, page 353, 'Dental Electricity' by Levitt E Custer, 1901.
  • Advert for Guy's Tonic, to aid indigestion and nervousness, showing a nurse pouring the tonic into a measuring cup
  • Sir Richard Owen. Lithograph by A. Orton after E. C. Rye.
  • Bibliotheca chalcographica, illustrium virtute atque eruditione in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum ... / Collectore Jano Jacobo Boissardo, ves[unt], sculptore Jan: Theod: de Bry.
  • Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to be home with his wife (coloured version); an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Saint Francis Xavier holding a crucifix, surrounded by Asian and African people kneeling in front of him; sea and a ship in the background. Colour lithograph, ca. 1898.