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A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.

A physician giving a medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon, supervised by a physician, amputating the leg of seated patient, representing pharmacy and surgery respectively. Engraving, 1646.

Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.

Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: the care and management of the sick. Photographs by Fotografia Lombardi Siena, 18--, of fresco by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.

A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.

A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.

A surgeon performing a paracentesis on an obese man, whose swollen abdomen has a cannula inserted into it, and is subsequently releasing fluid into a basin. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1672.

A surgeon about to bleed a man's arm, he is aided by an older surgeon and an assistant, a woman (the patient's wife ?) is present. Engraving, 1586.

An innkeeper's wife and daughter taking care of Don Quixote's wounds and injuries after being beaten. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

Medical staff standing round a woman patient in bed in a hospital ward. Photograph by Seeberger Frères, ca. 1910.

A physician examining a child, who is being comforted by a nurse in the ward of a childrens' hospital. Photogravure by J.Löwy, 1901, after I. Knopp, 1892.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

A sermon preached before His Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox and Aubigny, President and the Governors of the London Hospital, or Infirmary : for the relief of sick and diseased persons, especially manufacturers, and seamen in merchant-service, &c. at the Parish-Church of St. Lawrence-Jewry, on Friday, April 6, 1750 / By Matthias Lord Bishop of Chichester.

The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.

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Care of the sick

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.

Care of the sick

Images from the collections

Images about Care of the sick

Works from the collections

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.

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