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  • M0013462: Apparatus used by Carlo Forlanini for artificial pneumothorax
  • A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.
  • M0016403: English version of a Laennec stethoscope, 19th century
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Price list of the Veedee, fitted cases, and of extra attachments designed for special uses / The Veedee Company.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • M0014878: Four lancets used by Edward Jenner
  • Four figures of British medicine panniers illustrating a range of types and uses. Wood engraving by T. Mallet.
  • M0007465: Naval medicine chest open showing contents
  • M0001645: Engraving of a blood transfusion from a dog (canine) to a patient (human), circa 1692
  • M0016385EA: Five monaural stethoscopes, 19th century
  • Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • M0007467: Compartment from naval medicine chest
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • World War One: British prisoners of war at Ruhleben camp being examined for "barbed-wire disease" by a German army officer. Coloured pen and ink drawing by R. Walker, 1917.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: diorama of a sixteenth-century lying-in room. Photograph from a negative of 1927.
  • Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth, holding a bottle of medicine. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1807.
  • M0013655: Illustration of a Tarnier incubator in use at the Maternite, Paris
  • Christ raises Jairus' daughter. Etching by C.W. Griessmann after G. van den Eeckhout.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of Liebig's laboratory at Giessen. Photograph from a negative of 1924.