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Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plans. Process print, 1913.

Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Coloured wood engraving, 1854, after J. Clarke.

World War I: a convalescent soldier in a walking frame is running at speed while smoking a cigarette, endangering an older man and woman. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.

Boer War: a busy hospital ward on St. Patrick's day with a wounded Irishman being offered shamrock by a visiting lady. Process print after R. Macbeth after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.

Convalescent home for children, St. Leonards: perspective view. Wood engraving, 1881.

Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund Convalescent Home, Kewstoke, Weston-super-Mare: nurses (?) outside the patients' entrance. Photograph by R.W. Brown & Son, 1936.

Suffolk Convalescent Home, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Line engraving by W. & C. Yates.

A man with a broken leg is having its muscles stimulated by an electrical machine. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.

Das Hygiocomium, oder, Beschreibung eines medicinischen Institutes für die Pflege des heilenden Gesunden im Kranken nebst einer einleitenden und durch Tabellen erläuterten Uebersicht der gesammten Medicin : ihrem Inhalte, ihrer Bestimmung und ihrem Werthe, so wie ihrer gegenwärtigen Entwickelungsstufe nach / von F.W.G. Kranichfeld.

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Hospitals, Convalescent

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Images about Hospitals, Convalescent

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Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plans. Process print, 1913.

Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Coloured wood engraving, 1854, after J. Clarke.