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Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

Mourning brooches containing the hair of a deceased relative.

A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.

Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.

Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition

Mourning brooche containing the hair of a deceased relative.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

Médecins britanniques au Brésil / D.G. de Freitas.

Selections from Calcutta gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India / by W.S. Seton-Karr.

Local notions of disease in British medicine in the nineteenth century with reference to fevers in India / Penelope Day.

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Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

Médecins britanniques au Brésil / D.G. de Freitas.

Selections from Calcutta gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India / by W.S. Seton-Karr.

Local notions of disease in British medicine in the nineteenth century with reference to fevers in India / Penelope Day.