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James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Cornelia, the Vestal Virgin, entombed alive surrounded by bones in the dungeon. Line engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.

Hagar and Ishmael saved by an angel. Coloured mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1798, after J.S. Copley.

A drunken man at home with his starving and ruined family. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

The siege of Leiden in 1574: starving people dying, people killing dogs for food etc. Line engraving.

Hunger : disease of millions / [The British Society for International Health Education ; Susan King-Hall].

Das Hungern : Studien und Experimente am Menschen / von Luigi Luciani ; mit einem Vorwort von Jac. Moleschott ; autorisierte Übersetzung von M.O. Fraenkel.

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The siege of Leiden in 1574: starving people dying, people killing dogs for food etc. Line engraving.

Hunger : disease of millions / [The British Society for International Health Education ; Susan King-Hall].

Hagar and Ishmael saved by an angel. Coloured mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1798, after J.S. Copley.

Das Hungern : Studien und Experimente am Menschen / von Luigi Luciani ; mit einem Vorwort von Jac. Moleschott ; autorisierte Übersetzung von M.O. Fraenkel.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.