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  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Samson, victorious over the combined powers of the Philistines, holds the jaw of the ass up high. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • A goddess sits among a crowd of mythological figures with musical instruments and weapons; representing mineralogy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1817.
  • A surgeon on the battlefield. Process print after C. Maurer, 1594.
  • The death of Sir Phillip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after Sir D. Wilkie.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb; weapons hang from above. Process print after Rembrandt.
  • A pair of Indian wrestlers. Gouache drawing.
  • David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by P. Vallot after A. Gros.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • The death of Bayard: surrendering to the spanish general. Line engraving by C.N. Malapeau after A. Borel.
  • The circumcision of the Shechemites. Engraving by J. Muller (?).
  • Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above: symbolising the element fire. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • The death of General Marceau, during the retreat at Altenkirchen, 1796. Line engraving by M.G. Eichler, 1817, after A.-L. Giradet.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria. Line engraving by J. Rogers after T. Stothard.
  • Circe sits with books and wand; to right, men transformed into animals. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 165-.
  • Red Cross workers sleeping in hammocks during the Serbo-Turkish War. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • Minerva with a trophy. Engraving by A. Campanella after A. von Maron, 1781.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.
  • Joseph is dragged from the pit and sold by his brothers to a company of passing Midianites. Line engraving by G. de Jode.
  • A ruler defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Battle in Kabul. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
  • Durga mounted on her lion fighting a demon army. Gouache drawing.
  • Achilles bandaging the wounded arm of Patroclus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936, after an Attic cup by Sosias, c. 500 B.C.