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Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.

St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1881.

Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.

A man administers an enema to a baby. Reproduction of a painting by J.A. Garemyn, 1778.

An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.

Scenes of nurses at St Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park, London. Wood engraving, 1886.

Dr Simon Sparrow (played by Dirk Bogarde) spanking a nurse in the film 'Doctor at large'. Colour lithograph, 1959.

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.

St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.

Edith Cavell wearing Red Cross uniform lying dead on the floor as her spirit rises in the form of an angel. Process print after A. Rosell, ca. 1915.

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse treating wounded servians in an Usicza hospital. Coloured wood engraving.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary bringing food for the inmates of a hospital. Oil painting by Adam Elsheimer, ca. 1598.

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

Nurses in the political arena : the public face of nursing / Harriet R. Feldman, Sandra B. Lewenson.

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Nurses

Images from the collections

Images referencing Nurses

Works from the collections

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

Nurses in the political arena : the public face of nursing / Harriet R. Feldman, Sandra B. Lewenson.

Nurses

Images from the collections

Images referencing Nurses

Works from the collections

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

Nurses in the political arena : the public face of nursing / Harriet R. Feldman, Sandra B. Lewenson.

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