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"Earnest Willie," or, Echoes from a recluse : containing the letters, poems, addresses and sketches -- chiefly moral and religious -- with bits of laughing humor, smiling fancy and tender sentiment -- everywhere / the earnest heart-throbs of William D. Upshaw, during this more than sixteen years of invalid life -- (seven years spent on a bed).
Upshaw, Willie D. (William David), 1866-1952.Date: 1903
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An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
Nordenskiöld, E.Reference: 21377i- Pictures
Boer War: the deck of a homeward-bound hospital ship about to depart, with two wounded soldiers shaking hands. Halftone, 1900, after W. Small after D. Gunn.
Gunn, D. D., active 1900.Date: [1900]Reference: 23569i
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Russo-Japanese War: wounded soldiers slouched on benches and on stretchers on a stone floor. Watercolour.
Reference: 23895i
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Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.
Henri LanosDate: [1895?]Reference: 18574i
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Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
Benedictus Antonio Van AssenReference: 20568i
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Burma: a wounded political officer being carried on a stretcher. Wood engraving by P. Naumann, 1889, after W.B. Wollen.
William Barnes WollenDate: 1889Reference: 24330i
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World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
Haydn Reynolds MackeyDate: 1919Reference: 587286i
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A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching after J. Gillray after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, JohnReference: 12039i