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  • Dorsal view of the forebrain of a wild-type zebrafish embryo
  • Histoire dún voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigation et choses remarquables veues sur mer / par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays-là. Les moeurs et façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes et autres choses singulières ... Reveve, corrigée et bien augmentee en ceste troisieme edition, tant de figures.
  • The discoverie of the large rich, and bewtifvl empire of Gviana. With / a relation of the great and Golden Citie / of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El / Dorado) And of the Prouinces of Emeria, / Arromaia, Amapaia, and other Cou- / tries, with their riuers, ad- / ioyning. / Performed in the yeare 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh. Knight, Captaine of her / Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden / of the Stanneries, and her High- / nesse Lieutenant generall / of the Countie of / Cornewall / [Sir Walter Raleigh].
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Hans Bock d.A. Das Bad zu Leuk, 1597.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi in his cell having a vision of an angel playing the violin on a cloud. Engraving by R. Sadeler II after P. Piazza, 16--.
  • An old man trying on spectacles at a street vendor's optical shop. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • Jost Amman's Stände und Handwerker mit Versen von Han Sachs / [Jost Amman].
  • The parable of the blind leading the blind: two blind men walk into a stream. Engraving after H. Bosch.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • The parable of the blind leading the blind: six blind men walk in a line, the leader trips over, the second stumbles over him, the rest are set to follow. Process print after by P. Bruegel the elder, 1568.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • A putto pours a phial into a dragon's mouth, pumping a bellows with his other hand; representing the fixing of volatile matter in the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.
  • An elaborate metal mortar, German, 1545. Etching by W.W. McCarty.
  • High matter, dark language : the philosophy of Robert Fludd (1574-1637) an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine catalogue / [prepared by] Christine English, Michael Fend and Robert Jan van Pelt.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a man's arm, he is aided by an older surgeon and an assistant, a woman (the patient's wife ?) is present. Engraving, 1586.
  • De Iride: De Liquiritia:
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Eucharius Roeslin presenting his book on maternity to a pregnant Duchess of Brunswick. Woodcut.
  • Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity) Line engraving by L. van Leyden, 1524.
  • The birth of Henri of Navarre (Henry IV King of France). Line engraving by J.B. Pfitzer after L. Lafitte.
  • A crowned alchemical flask containing a young king, dressed in red, representing the culmination of the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A moon above a queen dressed in blue, and a sun above a king dressed in red; representing two alchemical principles: the dissolving 'lac virginis' (mercury) and the coagulating masculine principle (sulphur). Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A physician in traditional costume holding an ointment jar is supervising an apprentice who is mixing a concoction in a pot over a fire, Germany 1500. Heliotype.
  • Jost Amman's Stände und Handwerker mit Versen von Han Sachs / [Jost Amman].
  • Jost Amman's Stände und Handwerker mit Versen von Han Sachs / [Jost Amman].
  • Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.
  • Two Monks practising alchemy