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  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.
  • A doctor inserting a needle into a patient's arm with a warning about the importance of using sterilized needles; an AIDS prevention advertisement by SASO, Lifeline, Lighthouse, Kripa and VHAM. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A woman and a boy visiting a man in hospital. Woodcut by Käthe Kollwitz, 1929.
  • A surgeon performing a lithotomy on a patient who is being restrained by three assistants. Coloured engraving.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Russo-Japanese War: wounded Japanese soldiers lying in the Kaiping hospital. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Death's triumph over a much loved family man; illustrated by a skeletal death figure pulling the hair of the retreating doctor. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1814, after himself.
  • Russo-Japanese War: patients lying on the floor in the Japanese field hospital at Antung. Halftone after A. Michael, 1904.
  • Two surgeons treating the same patient, one is removing an arrow from his chest whilst the other is boring a hole into the patient's knee accompanied by two assistants and an onlooker. Pen drawing by ZS.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Elsie Clutterbuck (right), a smallpox patient, with another patient (a boy) and a nurse. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • A doctor diagnosing a cat with mumps and prescribing a remedy. Wash drawing, 18--.
  • Boer War: a full ward in the Wynberg military hospital, South Africa, with nurses attending the wounded. Halftone, 1900, after P.F.S. Spence after H. Egersdorfer.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded soldiers in the école communale de Villemontry. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.
  • A doctor and footman hurling pudding at each other in an attempt to make the obese patient laugh in order to cure his quinsey. Coloured engraving by R. Newton, 1797.
  • Boer War: a hospital ward with soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.
  • A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Coloured lithograph by W. Hunt.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A surgeon performing a lithotomy on a patient who is being restrained by three assistants, with five other anatomical illustrations. Engraving by F. Sesoni, 1749, after L. Heister.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A surgeon bleeding a man's head, he is aided by two assistants, a woman (the patient's wife ?) appears anxious. Engraving, 1586.
  • Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean War, at Brompton Hospital, Chatham. Coloured lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1855, after J. Tenniel.
  • A doctor and his patient talking at cross purposes. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A patient lies on a chaise-longue, while a nurse brings her some refreshment. Wood engraving by J.C. Griffiths after G.G. Kilburne.
  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.