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Visiting the sick

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

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    An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.

    Cremona, Ippolito, 1777-1844. | Date: 1818-1820 | Reference: 23466i
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    A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.

    Steele, Gourlay, 1819-1894. | Date: [1865?] | Reference: 574957i
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    Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after A.J. Gros, 1804.

    Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835. | Date: 1804 | Reference: 10095i
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    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.

    Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945. | Date: 22 March 1902 | Reference: 17149i
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    Go in peace : containing some brief directions for young ministers in their visitation of the sick : useful for the people in their state both of health and sickness.

    Martin, John, 1619-1693 | Date: 1687
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