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  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a patient. Etching by A. Brambilla.
  • The physician as Christ. Line engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • The words "Streiflichter" (Lightbeams) and "AIDS" with a list of day-seminars about AIDS given in Cologne in 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • An old lady asking her doctor about 'Violet Ray', referring to ultra violet rays. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1925.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • The words 'AIDS' forming the centre of a maze with four figures on the outside holding maps in an attempt to find their way in; an illustration by Ingram Pinn advertising a meeting in Berlin for alternative forms of therapy for those with HIV and AIDS; held on 11 January 1994 at the headquarters of Kursiv, the Centre for AIDS and advice for gay men. Photocopy, 1994.
  • A satyr wearing eyeglasses, with young assistant, removes a thorn from the foot of a male faun who leans against female companion. Engraving by G. Piccini after J. Muller after B. Spranger.
  • Song of the perfect cure / words by F.C. Perry ; music by J. Blewitt.
  • A vignette of a woman inhaling from a small lamp - advertising the 'asthmatic lamp'. Woodcut and letterpress, 1843.
  • A dancing, juggling man who brings relief to sick people. Engraving.
  • A male patient is hanging by his feet from an apparatus, a large worm (?) is passing from his mouth into a bowl, assisted by a surgeon and two assistants. Process print after a woodcut, 1497.
  • Der gantzen Artzenei ge-meyner Inhalt, Wes einem Artzt, bede in der Theoric und Practic zusteht. Mit anzeyge be-werter Artzneienn, zü allen leibichen Gebrechenn, / durch natürliche mittel, Hiebei beneben des menschen corpers Anatomei, warhafft Contrafeyt, und beschriben. Allen Artz-ten, und eim ieden zu sein selbs, unnd seins nehsten noturfft dienlich, wol zu haben und zuwissen. Newlich in Truck verordnet durch D. Ioan. Dryandrum Medicum, Ordinarium zu Marpurgi. ... Cum gratia & priuilegio Imperiali.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.
  • Advertisement for 'St Jacobs oil'. Process print, 1890.
  • A man grimacing grotesquely after taking some unpleasant tasting medicine. Stipple engraving by G.S. Facius and/or J.G. Facius, 1796, after A. Brouwer.
  • The journal of laboratory and clinical medicine.
  • A description of the vibrator (Engl. pat. 1890. No.4390.) and directions for use / by C.H. Liedbeck.
  • A travelling chiropodist tending to a male patient's foot, Beijing. Wood engraving by T.H. Hildibrand after E. Ronjat after J. Thomson.
  • Der gantzen Artzenei ge-meyner Inhalt, Wes einem Artzt, bede in der Theoric und Practic zusteht. Mit anzeyge be-werter Artzneienn, zü allen leibichen Gebrechenn, / durch natürliche mittel, Hiebei beneben des menschen corpers Anatomei, warhafft Contrafeyt, und beschriben. Allen Artz-ten, und eim ieden zu sein selbs, unnd seins nehsten noturfft dienlich, wol zu haben und zuwissen. Newlich in Truck verordnet durch D. Ioan. Dryandrum Medicum, Ordinarium zu Marpurgi. ... Cum gratia & priuilegio Imperiali.
  • A Chinese (?) physician giving a sick patient a large bowl containing medicine (?). Wood engraving by G.M.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
  • A description of the vibrator (Engl. pat. 1890. No.4390.) and directions for use / by C.H. Liedbeck.
  • Der gantzen Artzenei ge-meyner Inhalt, Wes einem Artzt, bede in der Theoric und Practic zusteht. Mit anzeyge be-werter Artzneienn, zü allen leibichen Gebrechenn, / durch natürliche mittel, Hiebei beneben des menschen corpers Anatomei, warhafft Contrafeyt, und beschriben. Allen Artz-ten, und eim ieden zu sein selbs, unnd seins nehsten noturfft dienlich, wol zu haben und zuwissen. Newlich in Truck verordnet durch D. Ioan. Dryandrum Medicum, Ordinarium zu Marpurgi. ... Cum gratia & priuilegio Imperiali.
  • De medicina Ægyptiorum libri quatuor, et Jacobi Bontii ... De medicina Indorum / [Prosper Alpini].
  • Der gantzen Artzenei ge-meyner Inhalt, Wes einem Artzt, bede in der Theoric und Practic zusteht. Mit anzeyge be-werter Artzneienn, zü allen leibichen Gebrechenn, / durch natürliche mittel, Hiebei beneben des menschen corpers Anatomei, warhafft Contrafeyt, und beschriben. Allen Artz-ten, und eim ieden zu sein selbs, unnd seins nehsten noturfft dienlich, wol zu haben und zuwissen. Newlich in Truck verordnet durch D. Ioan. Dryandrum Medicum, Ordinarium zu Marpurgi. ... Cum gratia & priuilegio Imperiali.
  • Der gantzen Artzenei ge-meyner Inhalt, Wes einem Artzt, bede in der Theoric und Practic zusteht. Mit anzeyge be-werter Artzneienn, zü allen leibichen Gebrechenn, / durch natürliche mittel, Hiebei beneben des menschen corpers Anatomei, warhafft Contrafeyt, und beschriben. Allen Artz-ten, und eim ieden zu sein selbs, unnd seins nehsten noturfft dienlich, wol zu haben und zuwissen. Newlich in Truck verordnet durch D. Ioan. Dryandrum Medicum, Ordinarium zu Marpurgi. ... Cum gratia & priuilegio Imperiali.