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  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A ward on the top deck of a hospital ship with patients standing or sitting by their beds. Engraving.
  • Austro-Prussian War: the Prussian King William I visiting wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, ca. 1866.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.
  • Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Aquatint after J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
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Soldiers
Hospitals
Patients
Hospital beds
Nurses
South African War, 1899-1902
Hospitals, Military
Plague
Disabled veterans
War victims