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Antimicrobial resistance : tackling a crisis for the health and wealth of nations / the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance chaired by Jim O'Neill.

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Mind the gap : a handbook of clinical signs in black and brown skin / Malone Mukwende, Peter Tamony, Margot Turner.

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Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere

Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere Date: c.1775 Reference: MS.1766 ...
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A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind / By James Cowles Prichard.

Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848. This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London. This material has been provided by King’s College ...
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Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis ...

Left, a fountain, in which stands a statue of Venus and Cupid. Water flows from Venus's breast into a cistern and thence into a stream. The stream passes under the body of a seated woman, elaborately ...
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Human blastocyst hatching

A human embryo at the blastocyst stage, about six days after fertilization, viewed under a light microscope. The embryo is in the process of "hatching" out of the zona pellucida - the tough outer ...
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The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean army. Mezzotint by J. Martin, 1831, after himself, 1819.

Bible. O.T. Isaiah 13-14. Jeremiah 50-1. A large green serpent is coiled around a pillar in the centre. It may be the serpent/dragon mentioned in the apocryphal 'Bel and the Dragon', which was ...
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Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty's command.

Credit: Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty's command. Source: Wellcome ...
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The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.

Hasselhorst, Johann Heinrich, 1825-1904.
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A Sicilian boy, head and shoulders, with a necklace of coins. Photograph by W. von Gloeden, 1900.

W. v. Gloeden Kunstverlag deponirt 1 Aug 1900 Taormina Sicilia Bears pencilled number on verso: 1735 The lettering is rubber-stamped on the verso Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin ...
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Departmental report : 2003 (Defra) / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Forestry Commission ; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for ...

Credit: Departmental report : 2003 (Defra) / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Forestry Commission ; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food ...
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Sketches from a smallpox epidemic in Cape Town. Wood engraving.

The recent small-pox epidemic at Cape Town- sketches at the temporary hospital at "Renzskie's farm" ... Lettering continues: "1. The ambulance bringing in patients from Cape Town.- 2. A runaway.- 3. A ...