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War

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  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Bone & fat bucket : save them for munitions / Domestic Savings Committee.
  • Bone & fat bucket : save them for munitions / Domestic Savings Committee.
  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
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Catalogue

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    A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.

    | Reference: 24101i
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    Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

    | Date: 1864 | Reference: 24323i
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    La dépêche médicale. No. 3, Le service de santé dans la guerre future après la bataille.

    | Date: 1909
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    Crimean War: appalling conditions as seen in the interior of the Russian Hospital in Sebastopol. Wood engraving after E.A. Goodall, 1855.

    Goodall, Edward A. | Date: 6 October 1855 | Reference: 21289i
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    The death of General von Schwerin, all around are soldiers. Coloured engraving by D. Berger, 1790, after J.C. Frisch.

    Frisch, Johann Christoph, 1738-1815. | Date: 1790 | Reference: 548178i
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