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Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.

New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.

Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.

An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.

St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1881.

A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.

Hopîtal Royal de Bicêtre, Paris: patients exercising in the grounds. Engraving by Letitia Byrne, 1829, after T. Nash.

A doctor taking the pulse of a country squire; the smug doctor receives a drink from the butler while his disgruntled patient's medicine is prepared by the maid. Lithograph by W. Hunt, 1825, after H.W. Bunbury.

A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.

The deaths of the kings of England / by James Rae.

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

Der Pazjent als Psychiater : Oskar Panizzas Weg vom Irrenarzt zum Insassen / Jürgen Müller.

The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler.

Hospital : Series two. Part 2.

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The deaths of the kings of England / by James Rae.

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

Der Pazjent als Psychiater : Oskar Panizzas Weg vom Irrenarzt zum Insassen / Jürgen Müller.

The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler.

Hospital : Series two. Part 2.