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Abortion Law Reform Association

William Ransom and Sons Limited (est.1846)

Charles Robert Darwin. Wood engraving by T. Johnson, 1883, after L. Darwin, 1874.

Saint Lucy.

A general history of nursing / by Lucy Ridgley Seymer.

Saint Lucy (13th December)

Saint Lucy (4th century).

The Hospital on the island in the Tiber.

Map of the island of Ascension.

Maud Temple, a bearded woman at Pickard's Waxwork exhibition, Glasgow. Process print, ca. 1910.

L.M.A. Caldani

World War II: members of the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS) making gauze bandages. Drawing by E. Hudson, 1942.

Tametomo repelling the smallpox from the island of Oshima

Possible site of Vesalius landing on the island.

The Aldgate Pump in 1874.

Lucy Baldwin Analgesia Apparatus.

Melville island man and a larakia woman

The case of the Hertfordshire witchcraft consider'd. : Being an examination of a book entitl'd A full and impartial account of the discovery of sorcery and witchcraft practis'd by Jane Wenham of Walkern, upon the bodies of Anne Thorne, Anne Street, &c.

A history of nursing : the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses / by M. Adelaide Nutting ... and Lavinia L. Dock.

Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician [C.L. Meryon]; comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some of the most remarkable persons of her time / [Hester Lucy Stanhope].

Carvings of St. Anne with Vrgin and child and Christ

Sir Herbert Lightfoot Eason (1874-1949)

Maud Schafer nee Dixey, 1st wife of Sir Edward Sharpey-Shafer. Died 1896

Thomas Henry Huxley. Line engraving by C. H. Jeens, 1874, after Elliott & Fry.

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