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A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.

A man applying a plaster to his hand outside in a rural setting; representing the sense of touch. Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1736, after D. Teniers the younger.

When pain is severe DF118 subdues the pain but not the patient : life, death, and the British.

No. 3 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : Red Anemones (1955) : contemporary treatment.

Real relief required : for pain of all dimensions prescribe Doxypol first.

The face of a man expressing simple bodily pain. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.

One of two scenes from the Naya-nayika set of lovers' quarrels. Chromolithograph.

Segontin aumenta el volumen circulatorio del sistema coronario ... : Neo-melubrina ... / Hoechst A.G. ; representantes: Quimica Hoechst de Mexico, S.A.

The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.

When pain is severe DF118 subdues the pain but not the patient : Spare time and the British.

An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.

Pain and sensory symptoms / [written by James Bailey ;edited by Sarah Westlake].

Wonde(r) : de fascinatie voor het lijdende lichaam = the fascination with the suffering body / Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi, Kristof Smeyers, Merlijn Gabel.

Christ on the way of the cross; the two Maries sorrow with the swooning Virgin. Engraving.

The circle of life : a search for an attitude to pain, disease, old age and death / by Kenneth Walker.

Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

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Pain

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Images referencing Pain

Works from the collections

Pain and sensory symptoms / [written by James Bailey ;edited by Sarah Westlake].

Wonde(r) : de fascinatie voor het lijdende lichaam = the fascination with the suffering body / Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi, Kristof Smeyers, Merlijn Gabel.

Christ on the way of the cross; the two Maries sorrow with the swooning Virgin. Engraving.

The circle of life : a search for an attitude to pain, disease, old age and death / by Kenneth Walker.

Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

Pain

Images from the collections

Images referencing Pain

Works from the collections

Pain and sensory symptoms / [written by James Bailey ;edited by Sarah Westlake].

Wonde(r) : de fascinatie voor het lijdende lichaam = the fascination with the suffering body / Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi, Kristof Smeyers, Merlijn Gabel.

Christ on the way of the cross; the two Maries sorrow with the swooning Virgin. Engraving.

The circle of life : a search for an attitude to pain, disease, old age and death / by Kenneth Walker.

Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

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