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  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • A nurse (matron?) wagging her finger in displeasure. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1959.
  • St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1881.
  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.
  • Scenes of nurses at St Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park, London. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • Dr Simon Sparrow (played by Dirk Bogarde) spanking a nurse in the film 'Doctor at large'. Colour lithograph, 1959.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.
  • St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.
  • Edith Cavell wearing Red Cross uniform lying dead on the floor as her spirit rises in the form of an angel. Process print after A. Rosell, ca. 1915.
  • Franco-Prussian War: a nurse treating wounded servians in an Usicza hospital. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Saint Elizabeth of Hungary bringing food for the inmates of a hospital. Oil painting by Adam Elsheimer, ca. 1598.
  • A nun brings some refreshment to a feverish patient, with a poem by Legouvé. Coloured lithograph by J.P. Moynet, 1846.
  • A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
  • Nurse Tremlow (name unconfirmed), a monthly nurse to gentry and royal households, in retirement, with photographs of her employers. Photograph, 19--.
  • Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.
  • M0002369: Bust of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) / M0002370: Portrait of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
  • René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Heliogravure after a painting by T. Chartran.
  • A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine. Watercolour by R.H. Giles.
  • Saint Elizabeth of Hungary bringing food for the inmates of a hospital. Oil painting by Adam Elsheimer, ca. 1598.
  • A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Red Cross workers carrying wounded bugler into hospital / Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
  • Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.
  • A physician holds up a glass of urine in a hospital. Pen drawing.
  • [Pictorial envelope showing a Red Cross nurse tending to a wounded soldier on a WW2 battlefield].
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Franco-Prussian War: French wounded being treated at Metz. Wood engraving by J.W.B.
  • Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.
  • Boer War: the ward of a hospital ship in which a nurse converses with an anxious lady and her daughter. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.
  • Florence Sarah Craven, Mrs Dacre Craven, née Lees. Photograph.