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  • Side profile of a young woman with a misshapen head, wrapped in a tartan shawl, probably in a hospital. Photograph.
  • The bones of a hand with a ring on one finger, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.
  • Hong Kong: the Parade Ground, City Hall and Cathedral. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Materia medica from a Chinese apothecary's shop: heads and beaks of birds, hoofs and legs of other animals and bears' feet in lines on the ground. Photograph.
  • A man taking the pulse of another man. Albumen print.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great: interior view of the south side showing Friar Bolton's window. Photograph by Rev. C.F. Fison, c. 1912.
  • A patient covered by heavy blankets being carried away from the baths at Aix les Bains on a sedan chair by two uniformed men. Photograph.
  • Cat mesentery, human skin and two human foetal eyes, seen through a microscope. Four photographs by A. Pringle.
  • Plague-infected house which has been demolished, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.
  • Skulls and bones of friars, looking towards the altar of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Kowloon, Hong Kong: five pirates awaiting beheading, while Chinese soldiers and dignitaries line up behind. Photograph, 1891.
  • Rotorua, New Zealand: Maori children in a thermal bath. Albumen print.
  • Kashmir: part of the Dhul canal. Photograph by Samuel Bourne.
  • Abyssinia: a naked man with elephantiasis owing to oedema of the lymph nodes in the right groin. Photograph, 1904.
  • A naked young man, viewed from the front in full length; the top of his rib cage appears to be sunken. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great: interior view showing north ambulatory, looking east. Photograph by W.F. Taylor, c. 1912.
  • New Zealand: Maori funeral rites. Albumen print.
  • Four young women holding flowers. Photograph by J.M. Cameron, 1868.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a cell with bed seen through doorway. Photograph.
  • A man, unclothed, viewed from behind in full-length, with semi-clenched fists. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1860.
  • A woman, viewed from behind, naked to the waist; revealing mobility of left shoulder. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1859.
  • King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, Sussex: nurses and medical staff (?) about to dine. Photograph, 1907.
  • Macao Island: Macao Inner Harbour and adjacent Barra Fort, from the Island of Patera. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Macao Island: panoramic view across the inner harbour from Macao City. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • A man with cholera buried prematurely. Photograph after painting by A. J. Wiertz.
  • Layers of tin foil, viewed under x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.
  • A man standing, naked, full-length, viewed from behind. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1861.
  • A group comprising doctors, health and public officials gathered on a street in Bombay about to begin the day's work, during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Staff of the Runchore segregation camp, set up by the Karachi Plague Committee, India. Photograph, 1897.