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  • Prevention of malnutrition: growth monitoring and promotion
  • A snobbish mother resistant to her daughter's doctor using a vaccine from their neighbour's child. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1872.
  • Ear piercing, tattooing, acupuncture, razors, needles and toothbrushes representing a warning about the ways in which you can catch AIDS by the British Deaf Association. Colour lithograph.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, the midwife hands the baby Mary (in swaddling clothes) to her mother Anne. Coloured pen drawing after a painting by B. Vivarini, 1473.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Child receiving vaccine at fixed site facility Zambia
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: foundling children outside a foundling hospital. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: foundling children outside a foundling hospital. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
  • Rideau Hall, Ottawa: people using a toboggan slide in the presence of the Marquis of Lorne, governor-general of Canada, and his wife Princess Louise. Wood engraving by H. Harral after S.P. Hall.
  • Grandmother feeding child
  • An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A naked man with motor neuron disease, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cart laden with coins in sacks is dragged by a group of devils who are lashed by men armed with whips; representing William Wood's scheme to improve the Irish coinage. Engraving, 1724.
  • The works of mercy. Drawing by C. Groeneveld, 1808.
  • Transmission and risk factors: Occupational transmission
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Sun Simiao