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  • Unhygienic practices which lead to cholera. Colour lithograph by the Ukraine Military Sanitary Directorate, Sanitary Enlightenment Department of the Kiev Region, 1921.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to cholera. Colour lithograph by the Ukraine Military Sanitary Directorate, Sanitary Enlightenment Department of the Kiev Region, 1921.
  • Buddha, resisting the demons of Mara, who are attempting to prevent him from attaining enlightenment, as angels watch from above. Lithograph.
  • A man with a lamp shade on his head surrounded by a halo of light with the words "réveillez-vous" (Wake up!) across his jumper; representing enlightenment about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Glen Baxter, 1993.
  • An Enlightened Policy in Morocco
  • S. Burroughs in Arab dress. Picture from "An Enlightened Policy in Morocco".
  • Vaccinae vindicia; or, defence of vaccination: containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Vaccinae vindicia; or, defence of vaccination: containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Vaccinae vindicia; or, defence of vaccination: containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • A stippled impression of a woman pulling away from a man on a bed pulling her skirt up; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Eugenio Dittborn, ca. 1995.
  • Anne Siggs, an eccentric lame beggar. Engraving, 1804.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, Anna rests in bed while the child is looked at in wonder. Line engraving by R. van Audenaerd after A. Carracci.
  • A preacher standing inside a barrel and preaching repentance arouses guilt, alarm and confusion in the minds of his audience. Engraving by T. Sanders after Tim Bobbin (John Collier).
  • Mass executions on a scaffold before a crowd of spectators: a group of people is hanged together from a gibbet, while others are beheaded, crucified and disembowelled. Engraving with etching, 16--.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A mechanical housemaid constructed from pieces of household equipment. Engraving by G. Bickham the younger.
  • Two blue shapes torn in half to reveal an orange circle, as if the sun; an advertisement for the 1st national conference on AIDS prevention for drug users from 16 to 17 November 1994 at the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid; organised by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • A Lohan (disciple of Buddha), seated on a rock, holding prayer beads. Woodcut in the manner of an ink stone rubbing, China, 18--?.
  • A Lohan (disciple of Buddha), seated on a rock beside an incense-burner (?), holding a tablet. Woodcut in the manner of an ink stone rubbing, China, 18--?.
  • A Lohan (disciple of Buddha), seated in a rocky alcove, his eyes closed in meditation (?). Woodcut in the manner of an ink stone rubbing, China, 18--?.