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  • Four women in a room being blown by the north wind: another is leading a man with a cane out of the door. Coloured etching by J. Gillray.
  • A naked man with hemiplegia walking with a stick: (above) from the side, (below) from the front. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man with hemiplegia walking with a stick: (above) from the side, (below) from the front. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Benin (Dahomey): men holding staffs made of human skulls with plumes of horsehair. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski (?), 19--.
  • A physician examining a urine sample in a flask, cane pressed against his chin. Wood engraving after A.A. Oberländer.
  • A blind beggar holds out his hat for money. Coloured mezzotint by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1757.
  • Three old veterans, two sitting, one standing. Pencil drawing.
  • A blind beggar sits, head lowered, hand begging for money. Etching by J. Zubau, 1865.
  • Bulgarian men wearing national dress.
  • Two people come into a pharmacy to ask for advice, the apothecary sits resting his gouty leg. Etching by N. Loder after himself.
  • The head of a blind man wearing dark glasses, and a hand carrying a white stick on the road; advertising attention to the blind in Germany. Colour lithograph, 199- (?).
  • Two blind beggars, one stands with a placard around his neck and hat, the other kneels with a dog on his lap. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Two drunken war veterans staggering along arm-in-arm. Coloured lithograph by E. Purcell.
  • Mr. Blake in the character of Monsieur le médecin. Mezzotint by J. McArdell after himself.
  • An old couple are assisted in walking; representing the ninetieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16---.
  • A woman holding a rod encircled by a snake leads an invalid; representing medicine. Process print after a bas-relief by U.A. Ricci.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.
  • A hypochondriac patient consulting a cynical physician: the patient is healthy, but the physician will provide a treatment that will produce some symptoms of ill-health. Pen drawing, 183-(?).
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, seated, with a jug near his left hand. Wood engraving.
  • Moses, with his rod and the table of the ten commandments. Etching by J. Rogers after S.W. Reynolds.
  • A well dressed physician walking through a village in Corsica. Coloured aquatint after J. Daubigny.
  • An old blind man holding a child walks guided by his stick and dog. Coloured watercolour drawing by R.R.S.
  • Two angels visit Lot with the intention of destroying Sodom: he offers them hospitality. Line engraving by P. Galle after A. Blocklandt.
  • A physician talking to a patient who is in bed. Etching by D. Berger, 1775, after D. Chodowiecki.
  • A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by Butterworth and Heath.
  • A sick man in bed, attended by a physician, and surrounded by members of his family weeping and praying. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid after J.P. Haid, 17--.
  • The parable of the blind leading the blind: six blind men walk in a line, the leader trips over, the second stumbles over him, the rest are set to follow. Process print after by P. Bruegel the elder, 1568.
  • Moses, with his rod and the table of the ten commandments; with scenes from the Passion and the Last Judgement to come. Mezzotint after S.W. Reynolds.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the gentleman's verandah. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.