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  • An African dentist performing an operation on a patient that he is restraining with a wooden stick. Wood engraving by MD.
  • A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, which she views suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • St Thomas's Hospital: the "Florence Nightingale" Ward with Christmas [?] decorations. Photogravure after A. Rischgitz.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: two convalescent children. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • The doctor.
  • A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • July Revolution, 1830, Paris: a man being carried to the Ecole de Médecine by printers who cry out to take up arms. Lithograph after E. Levasseur.
  • Germain Colot performing an operation for bladder stone. Coloured pencil drawing by A. Rivoulon.
  • Comédie-Française, Paris: a corridor used as a hospital in the Franco-Prussian War showing nurses treating patients. Photograph by Fiorillo after A. Brouillet, 1870.
  • A military dental surgery where soldiers have their teeth extracted extremely quickly, whilst others are waiting for their operations. Pen drawing by H. Bury.
  • A military dental surgery where soldiers have their teeth extracted extremely quickly, whilst others are waiting for their operations. Pen drawing by H. Bury.
  • Patients waiting to see the doctor, with figures representing their fears. Oil painting by Rosemary Carson, 1997.
  • René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Reproduction after a painting by T. Chartran.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a woman who responds with convulsions. Wood engraving, 1845.
  • A physician, in his surgery and workshop, examining a urine flask and referring to a book. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers.
  • Hopîtal Royal de Bicêtre, Paris: patients exercising in the grounds. Engraving by Letitia Byrne, 1829, after T. Nash.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a man's arm, he is aided by an older surgeon and an assistant, a woman (the patient's wife ?) is present. Engraving, 1586.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Lithograph by W. Hunt.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: George Steel as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Florence Nightingale receiving wounded soldiers at Scutari Hospital. Colour lithograph after J. Barrett.
  • Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.
  • The doctor.
  • A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians. Watercolour by T. Müller.
  • Patients waiting to see the doctor, with figures representing their fears. Oil painting by Rosemary Carson, 1997.
  • Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.