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  • Junior cat care manual / Cats Protection League.
  • Pledge of Florence Nightingale.
  • A woman with plague being carried on a stretcher made from a slim branch into the Hindu Plague Hospital. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop being attacked by Susannah with a saucepan, while the nurse holds the baby Tristram Shandy. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • A mother explaning to a doctor that her baby's medicine has been used up quickly because the whole family tried it - to encourage baby to take some. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Prance, 1923.
  • An exhausted nurse who has been looking after her patient for many hours asks when she may go to bed, the patient's mother retorts that she thought she was a trained nurse. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill.
  • A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
  • A Swiss hospital train, World War I: interior view of a converted goods train, used to transport severely wounded prisoners of war. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A steam train is pulling a line of wagons carrying goods and another is carrying cattle in trucks. Chromolithograph.
  • One steam train is pulling a long line of enclosed passenger carriages and the other is pulling open trucks with the passengers standing. Chromolithograph.
  • Members of the British National Hospital Service Reserve attending to someone who has been injured; advertising recuitment to the National Hospital Service Reserve. Colour lithograph, 1951 (?).
  • Text: The Organization of Nursing in a Large
  • Text: The Organization of Nursing in a Large
  • Text: The Organization of Nursing in a Large
  • Text: The Organization of Nursing in a Large
  • A Swiss hospital train, World War I: interior view of a converted goods train, used to transport severely wounded prisoners of war. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.
  • A man using a handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds to productive workers. Colour lithograph.
  • A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.
  • Trachoma: surgery by ophthalmologists
  • A wounded soldier having his foot dressed by a nun, while her assistant holds a bowl of water. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.
  • A wounded soldier having his foot dressed by a nun, while her assistant holds a bowl of water. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.
  • El-Amarna, Egypt; village children collecting water
  • Certificate : Royal Red Cross... / Denbighshire Education Authority.
  • Certificate : Royal Red Cross... / Denbighshire Education Authority.
  • A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.
  • A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.
  • Florence Nightingale. Engraving by W. H. Simmons, 1863, after J. D. Luard, 1858.
  • A wounded British officer returning from the Crimean War. Mezzotint by W.H. Simmons, 1863, after J.D. Luard, 1858.