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  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a fuchsia: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.
  • Boer War: the sanatorium camp used during the siege of Kimberley. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • Ferdinand Sauerbruch addressing a class in the new lecture hall: the University Surgical Clinic of the Charité Hospital, Berlin. Process print after M. Koser, ca. 1935.
  • Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.
  • Boer War: the ward of a hospital ship in which a nurse converses with an anxious lady and her daughter. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.
  • Seven plants, including an Australian honeysuckle: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1842 (?).
  • Seven British garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • A well attended meeting of "total abstainers" in the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Wood engraving, c. 1854, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Poor man's orchid or butterfly flower (Schizanthus pinnatus): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, 1833.
  • A plant (Lisianthus princeps): large single flower and flower cluster. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850.
  • The Kent County Hospital, Canterbury. Line engraving by Thomas.
  • An Indian azalea (Rhododendron cultivar): flowering stem. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1863, after J. Vandamme.
  • A plant (Hyacinthus corymbosus): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1807, after S. Edwards.
  • Eight plants, including five orchids: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Three heads showing phrenological traits associated with insanity: a mentally defective person, a mad woman, and the murderer P.F. Lacenaire. Lithograph by C. Picard, 1842, after J.P. Thenot.
  • Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a large, bearded man carrying a wounded soldier. Gouache painting by S. L. Wood, c. 1904.
  • Seven plants, including an orchid, a paeony and a toadflax: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Invalided soldiers assembled in the garden of Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, c. 1855.
  • A street tooth-drawer on his stall extracting a tooth from a patient. Wood engraving after C. Fripp (?).
  • Five kinds of treatment in hospitals and elsewhere. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Sketches from a smallpox epidemic in Cape Town. Wood engraving.
  • A hospital ward in the military hospital, Portsea. Wood engraving by W. Thomas, 1855.
  • Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Seven plants, including two orchids and an alstroemeria: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Benjamin Howard assisted by Sir E. Sieveking demonstrating artificial respiration on a supine figure at the Royal Humane Society. Wood engraving by T. Robinson, 1878, after C. Robinson.