Picture of Euphorbia corollata, frequently called flowering spurge which is a type of milkweed. Fairly well-known medicinal plant in the early nineteenth century. Used as an emetic and a cathartic. Engraved by Annin & Smith. "PL. LIII" appears in...
Photograph showing two men sitting in front of a hyperbaric unit. One man is wearing a headset, and the other man appears to be a staff member. Some instruments are shown in front of the men.
Picture of a bust of John Hunter, brother of the anatomist and obstetrician, William Hunter. John Hunter studied among other things the function of the air sac in birds, the olfactory nerves, sex behavior in many different animals, and pioneered in the...