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Anatomical drawing: the five viscera, front and back, Chinese

White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.

Theory of diseases treated with da qinglong tang, Chinese

Opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

A plant (Salvia patens): flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1842, after Miss Drake.

Ming herbal (painting): Water chestnut

Rueff's Conceptu et generationi...

Anatomy of the spleen in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut

C19 Chinese paintings of famous physicians: Zhang Zhongjing

Qigong exercise to treat distension and suffocation

C19 Chinese ink drawing: 'Mountain root' and elbow boils

Anatomy of the bladder in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut

Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases

A pied oyster-catcher. Etching with engraving.

A plant (Sisymbrium sophia) related to hedge mustard: flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1801.

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C19 Chinese ink drawing: 'Mountain root' and elbow boils

Anatomy of the bladder in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut

Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases

A pied oyster-catcher. Etching with engraving.

A plant (Sisymbrium sophia) related to hedge mustard: flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1801.