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Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.

A human heart with surrounding arteries; two dissected legs and a dissected arm, lettered for key. Etching by D. Lizars after J. Bell, c. 1810 (?).

A dissected arm, lettered for key. Etching by Lizars after C. Bell, c. 1810 (?).

Two diagrams of legs in splints, illustrating how to set a fractured limb. Stipple engraving by D. Lizars after J. Bell.

Five examples of aneurisms of the thigh, lettered for key. Etching by D. Lizars, c. 1810 (?).

A clockwork (?) machine for engraving metal plates devised by Alexis-Marie Rochon. Engraving by D. Lizars.

An amputated leg with dissected thigh, lettered for key. Etching by D. Lizars after J. Bell, c. 1810 (?).

A man with an aneurism on his forehead. Coloured stipple etching by D. Lizars after J. Bell, c. 1810 (?).

A man directs the attention of a boy to a Latin inscription on a plinth stating that learning increases natural capability; representing education. Etching by D. Lizars, 1784.

A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation : being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject : to elucidate the proximate cause, to appretiate the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F. R. S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, honorary member of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris; also of the Philosophical Societies of Manchester, Philadelphia, &c.

Thesaurus medicus Edinburgensis novus : sive, dissertationum in Academia Edinensi, ad rem medicam pertinentium, ab anno 1759 ad annum 1785, delectus / ab illustri Societate Regia Medica Edinensi habitus.

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Lizars, Daniel, 1760-1812

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Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.

A man with an aneurism on his forehead. Coloured stipple etching by D. Lizars after J. Bell, c. 1810 (?).

A man directs the attention of a boy to a Latin inscription on a plinth stating that learning increases natural capability; representing education. Etching by D. Lizars, 1784.

Thesaurus medicus Edinburgensis novus : sive, dissertationum in Academia Edinensi, ad rem medicam pertinentium, ab anno 1759 ad annum 1785, delectus / ab illustri Societate Regia Medica Edinensi habitus.