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Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.

A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.

M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches and a disease of the lung) all inter-related (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.

Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Aquatint after J. Gillray, 1806.

A confrontation between two figures, representing industrial diseases being challenged by health gained from use of Morris Evans' remedies. Colour lithograph incorporating a design by W. Mitford Davies.

Saint Valentine blessing an epileptic. Coloured etching.

Sanatorio Mussolini, Rome; bird's eye view. Process print.

Diseases of infants and children / by Henry Dwight Chapin and Godfrey Roger Pisek.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of anthrax of the thigh. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of a mammary carbuncle on his chest. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

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Diseases of infants and children / by Henry Dwight Chapin and Godfrey Roger Pisek.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of anthrax of the thigh. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

A Chinese man displaying symptoms of a mammary carbuncle on his chest. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.