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  • De l'assistance publique et des hopitaux jusqu'au XIXe siècle : plan d'un hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme / par C. Tollet.
  • De l'assistance publique et des hopitaux jusqu'au XIXe siècle : plan d'un hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme / par C. Tollet.
  • De l'assistance publique et des hopitaux jusqu'au XIXe siècle : plan d'un hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme / par C. Tollet.
  • The Hôtel Dieu, Paris: interior showing patients being nursed by monks and nuns. Woodcut.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • The exhumed corpse of the French King Henry IV standing bandaged and upright in a coffin in the vaults of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Line engraving with etching by E. Bovinet, A. Chataigner and T.B. de Jolimont after E.H. Langlois.
  • The god Mercury, with Venus in the background, tries to teach Cupid to read. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1744, after Van-Loo le pere.
  • The god Mercury, with Venus in the background, tries to teach Cupid to read. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1744, after Van-Loo le pere.
  • July Revolution, 1830, Paris: a man being carried to the Ecole de Médecine by printers who cry out to take up arms. Lithograph after E. Levasseur.
  • A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
  • A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
  • Saint Antony Abbot: he is tormented by devils, one of whom is disguised as a woman offering him a glass. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
  • The transfer of the coffins of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, to the church St. Denis in Paris on 21 January 1815. Etching with engraving, 1815.