Crimean War, England: receiving lint to be sent to Scutari. Wood engraving by LEA. W.

The Walcheren inquiry into the misconduct of the Army Medical Board of three, resulting in its abolition. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson. 1810.

Crimean War, England: caricature possibly a play on class and language or corruption within the Crimean Fund Office connected with Florence Nightingale. Wood engraving by N.

Four figures of British medicine panniers illustrating a range of types and uses. Wood engraving by T. Mallet.

Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.

Crimean War, England: women manufacturing lint for the army. Wood engraving by W. Sheeres, 1855.

Russo-Japanese War: army medical staff treating the wounded in a field at Linglingtun, China. Collotype, c. 1904.

Franco-Prussian War: british ambulance stores at Metz. Wood engraving.

Boer War: soldiers checking the contents of crates of medical supplies. Halftone, c.1900.

Boer War: the dispensary of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein, South Africa. Process print, 1900.

World War One: a physician tending a soldier in a room in the trenches. Coloured charcoal drawing.

A beach in the Dardanelles with soldiers unloading medical supplies from a ship to Red Cross trucks. Colour halftone after N. Wilkinson, 1915.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm

A history of medicine in 50 objects / Gill Paul.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 26 x 34.7 cm

1 print : lithograph ; image 15.5 x 24.4 cm

8th Xhosa War: British soldiers bearing a wounded man on a stretcher and supplies through jungle. Lithograph, ca. 1852.

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Medical supplies

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Images referencing Medical supplies

Works from the collections

Boer War: soldiers checking the contents of crates of medical supplies. Halftone, c.1900.

A history of medicine in 50 objects / Gill Paul.

Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.

The Walcheren inquiry into the misconduct of the Army Medical Board of three, resulting in its abolition. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson. 1810.

8th Xhosa War: British soldiers bearing a wounded man on a stretcher and supplies through jungle. Lithograph, ca. 1852.

Medical supplies

Images from the collections

Images referencing Medical supplies

Works from the collections

Boer War: soldiers checking the contents of crates of medical supplies. Halftone, c.1900.

A history of medicine in 50 objects / Gill Paul.

Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.

The Walcheren inquiry into the misconduct of the Army Medical Board of three, resulting in its abolition. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson. 1810.

8th Xhosa War: British soldiers bearing a wounded man on a stretcher and supplies through jungle. Lithograph, ca. 1852.

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