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  • A physician taking the hand of a sick female patient, her mother is standing near them. Watercolour by A. Jerôme.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale checking on her patients and administrating medicine at Scutari Hospital. Coloured lithograph by J.A. Benwell.
  • An older surgeon instructing a younger surgeon on how to bleed a male patient's arm. Engraving, 1586.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian tending the frail and the sick. Line engraving by N. Picart, 1675.
  • Florence Nightingale. Mezzotint by C.A. Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • A surgeon consulting an older surgeon before bleeding an man's hand, he is aided by an assistant and a woman. Engraving, 1586.
  • World War One: a physician tending a soldier in a room in the trenches. Coloured charcoal drawing.
  • A physician taking the hand of a sick female patient, her mother is standing near them. Watercolour by A. Jerôme.
  • A surgeon consulting an older surgeon before bleeding an man's hand, he is aided by an assistant and a woman. Engraving, 1586.
  • A frail and wounded soldier being saved from death by the care of his young wife. Etching by B. Roger after L. Sicard.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: physicians and surgeons treating the sick. Watercolour, 19--, after Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a woman's foot, he is observed by an older surgeon and aided by an assistant, another woman comforts the patient. Engraving, 1586.
  • A hospital ward in the Comèdie Francaise set up during a war, doctors and nurses tend the soldiers. Photograph.
  • A frail and wounded soldier being saved from death by the care of his young wife. Etching by B. Roger after L. Sicard.
  • The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian tending the frail and the sick. Line engraving by N. Picart, 1675.
  • Patients being tended and treated by nurses and physicians on a hospital ward. Line engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • A surgeon instructing a younger surgeon how to bleed a male patient's foot, a woman is comforting the patient. Engraving, 1586.
  • A sick man lies in bed while a physician takes his pulse and others consult. Watercolour drawing.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • A man on a bench tells a policeman that his local hospital has no room for him, while other hospitals cannot help him because he is not local. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.
  • A maid bringing medicine and soup to her master who has a cold. Lithograph, 1857, after W.H. Simmons after J. Collinson.
  • A surgeon bleeding a woman patient's arm, he is assisted by two attendants. Engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • An old man in a wheelchair is fed by three boys; around him a family goes about its business. Etching by F. Vasconi after P.L. Ghezzi, 1719.
  • A surgeon bleeding the arm of a young woman: she is being comforted by another woman. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson (?), 1784.
  • Florence Nightingale. Mezzotint by C.A. Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.