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Thomas Willis, 17th century English physician, 1742. Artist: George VertueThomas Willis, 17th century English physician, 1742. Willis (1621-1675) was the first man in modern times to notice the sweetish taste of diabetic urine in Diabetes mellitus
Hypnotism, 1891. Male hypnotist putting a young woman into an hypnotic trance. Animal magnetism or hypnotism had a revival at the end of the 19th century
Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist, 1879. Artist: Francis Carruthers GouldHerbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist, 1879. Born in Derby, Spencer (1820-1903) put forward the idea and coined the term survival of the fittest
Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, lecturing, 1852. Playfair (1818-1898) lecturing at the Museum of Practical Geology, London
Mars, Roman god of war, 1569. Mars (Greek Ares) riding in his chariot pulled by dogs (the dogs of war). Mars was regarded as a male planet, hot and fiery
Jean Martin Charcot, French neurologist and pathologist, 1887. Charcot (1825-1893) giving a clinical lecture at the Salpetriere hospital, Paris, where he worked from 1862
William Bowman, English anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist, 1880. Artist: Lock & WhitfieldWilliam Bowman, English anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist, 1880. Bowman (1816-1892) was born at Nantwich, Cheshire. After five years at Birmingham General Hospital
Part of the lunar surface, 1857. The surface of the Moon in the region of Mare Crisium at New Moon. From Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. (Edinburgh, 1857)
