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  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: two nurses and a patient [?] in front of a guarded fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
  • Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire: six scenes of nurses, nurse and patient, patients, hospital wards, treatment and physicians. Process print.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: bearded patient and nurse on Pitcairn ward. Photograph, c.1908.
  • World War One: a bandaged patient with a doctor and nurse. Photograph, ca. 1919.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: bearded patient and nurse on Pitcairn ward. Photograph, c.1908.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Elsie Clutterbuck (right), a smallpox patient, with another patient (a boy) and a nurse. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • A nurse monitoring a patient after an operation and taking notes. Drawing by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.
  • A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1842.
  • A patient with one leg having plaster of paris applied to the stump, standing between a doctor and nurse. Photograph, ca. 1915.
  • A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.
  • 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.
  • An iron lung, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a patient inside a Drinker respirator, attended to by a nurse and a doctor. Photograph, ca. 1930( ?).
  • The National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London: a doctor and nurse use an electro-cardiograph to give a patient a heart test. Photograph, ca. 1922.
  • A physician asks a nurse how his patient is: she replies that he is rambling and delirious but the last sensible thing he uttered was an insulting remark about the doctor. Wood engraving, 1891.
  • A physician asks a nurse how his patient is: she replies that he is rambling and delirious but the last sensible thing he uttered was an insulting remark about the doctor. Wood engraving, 1891.
  • 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 German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • A dentist and nurse tending a patient in a chair, a woman holding up a test tube filled with blood and three surgeons in green coats and face masks; a warning about the dangers of contaminated blood and transmission of the AIDS disease. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Patient in bed, two nurses and a physician standing by.
  • A doctor and nurse tending an AIDS patient in a hospital bed, a photograph by Pierre Michaud representing an advertisement for an exhibition entitled: "Views: caregivers at the heart of the AIDS years" at the Hôtel de Miramon from 1st December [World AIDS Day] 1992 to 16th January 1993 by the Musée de l'Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. Lithograph.
  • York, England: nurses and patient in the operating theatre of the York County Hospital. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.
  • A doctor and nurses playing cards in a room with a sick patient. Process print after L.T. Lackernay.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, London: ward with nurses and patients. Photograph, 1910.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, London: ward with nurses and patients. Photograph, 1910.
  • St Mary's Hospital, Plaistow: patients, children and a nurse. Photograph, 1904.