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  • Six arms showing different designs of tattoo, and two smaller views of tattoos. Process print, 1903.
  • Fatima, the wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis, rises to greet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu while her two daughters remain seated. Stipple engraving after T. Stothard.
  • Fatima, the wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis, rises to greet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu while her two daughters remain seated. Stipple engraving by J. Parker after T. Stothard.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A procession of health officials ironically proclaiming the coming of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A travelling procession of health officials who ironically praise the coming of vaccination. Etching.
  • A public square in a French port, in which a medicine vendor cries up his wares to an audience of traders and strollers. Coloured aquatint by J. Léveillé, 1785, after A. Borel.
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
  • Electrical appliances exhibited at the 1882 Electrical Exhibition, including chandeliers and the first telegraph instrument. Wood engraving, 1882.