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  • A group of doctors and medical students surround a dying patient. Watercolour attributed to T. Rowlandson.
  • John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A medical drama: a film director talks to actors playing a surgeon, a nurse and a patient. Oil painting by John Heseltine, ca. 1975/1980.
  • A medical drama: a film director talks to actors playing a surgeon, a nurse and a patient. Oil painting by John Heseltine, ca. 1975/1980.
  • Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: patients in the out-patients' department. Photograph, 1921.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: nurses and children patients on a ward. Photograph, 1921.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: children's ward, with patients, nurses and members of the medical staff. Photograph, 1902.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Victoria Ward, with women patients, members of the medical staff and nurses. Photograph, 1902.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Connaught Ward, with men patients, members of the medical staff, and nurses. Photograph, 1902.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Albert Ward, with nurses, a member of the (medical?) staff and male patients. Photograph, 1902.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients awaiting examination and giving their medical history, prior to treatment for rabies. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Alfred Hospital Training School for Nurses, Melbourne... : this is to certify that... has served a three years term of training as a pupil nurse in the wards of this hospital (including the nursing of sick children and gynaecological patients) also in the operation theatre and out-patients and casualty departments... qualifying her to act as a skilled medical & surgical nurse.
  • J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • A doctor and some women attend to and prepare bandages for a wounded military man lying in comfortable surroundings. Coloured pen and pencil drawing by A. Lynch.
  • Surgeons group around a patient exhibiting an especially dramatic anal fistula; the patient happily thinks to himself that he has never before been the object of such attention. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A travelling healer demonstrating the extraction of a tooth from the mouth of a woman patient, before a crowd of onlookers. Etching attributed to Cornelis de Wael.
  • A patient being advised by a doctor not to drink beer in the morning, he retorts by saying there was no brandy available. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1876.
  • An itinerant tooth-drawer performing an operation on a struggling male patient. Ink wash drawing after P.A. Wille, 1788.
  • A doctor applying a stethoscope to a boy's back when the boy expects him to examine his chest. Wood engraving after C.A. Shepperson, 1908.
  • A surgeon apologetically takes a breather during an amputation operation: a bottle of champagne waits in a cooler; a doctor and nurse canoodle while the patient screams. Colour process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A doctor unexpectedly visiting a patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.