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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.

Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.

World War I: a ward in the London Hospital in which a nurse tends a soldier's arm while other soldiers lie in bed. Oil painting after Sir J. Lavery.

A man consulting a physician who examines a flask of his urine. Engraving, 1644.

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

Franco-Prussian War: soldiers convalescing in the Palais Royale Military hospital. Etching by H. Tissot, 1870.

Christmas day in a ward of a hospital. Watercolour by Nurse Dakin(?), 1917-1918.

Scenes of nurses at St Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park, London. Wood engraving, 1886.

The German Hospital, Dalston: a ward with patients and nurses. Photograph by Marshall, Keene & Co.

A ward for men in a hospital. Photograph, ca. 191-.

Hospital of the Knights of Saint John, Rhodes: a ward, with the fireplace on the right. Photograph, 1931.

Gloucester Infirmary, Gloucester, England: a ward. Photograph by S. Pitcher, 19--.

Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Victoria Ward, with women patients, members of the medical staff and nurses. Photograph, 1902.

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A ward for men in a hospital. Photograph, ca. 191-.

Hospital of the Knights of Saint John, Rhodes: a ward, with the fireplace on the right. Photograph, 1931.

Gloucester Infirmary, Gloucester, England: a ward. Photograph by S. Pitcher, 19--.

Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Victoria Ward, with women patients, members of the medical staff and nurses. Photograph, 1902.