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  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: the Russian General Dragomirov being treated for his wounds. Wood engraving.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a nurse bearing gifts and flowers on her way to work. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Boer War: a busy field hospital storeroom with baskets of Red Cross medical supplies. Charcoal drawing by P.F.S. Spence.
  • Boer War: bringing in the wounded Boer prisoners of war after the Battle of Magersfontein. Halftone by C.H. after P.F.S. Spence after Captain Ferguson.
  • Franco-Prussian War: foreign ambulance staff in the Siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by Draner (J. Renard), 1871.
  • Boer War: removing the wounded after the Battle of Spion Kop. Brush and wash drawing by H.M.Paget, 1900, after A.E.C.
  • A hospital ward in the Comèdie Francaise set up during a war, doctors and nurses tend the soldiers. Photograph.
  • A beach in the Dardanelles with soldiers unloading medical supplies from a ship to Red Cross trucks. Colour halftone after N. Wilkinson, 1915.
  • A uniformed British military doctor in front of a Red Cross horse-drawn cart. Chromolithograph, c. 1870.
  • Boer War: nuns and a policeman taking down the Red Cross flag from the bomb damaged convent at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after S. Robinson.
  • Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.
  • World War One: a busy scene at an army medical depot with Red Cross ambulances for the wounded. Watercolour, c. 1914.
  • Arithmologia sive de abditis numerorum mysterijs qua origo, antiquitas et fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditae eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post cabalistarum, Arabum, gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera et licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Boer Wars: British soldiers bringing first aid to wounded Boers. Watercolour by W. Hatherell, 1901.
  • Boer Wars: British soldiers bringing first aid to wounded Boers. Watercolour by W. Hatherell, 1901.
  • Russo-Turkish War: Princess of Roumania's Hospital at Bucharest. Wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.
  • World War One: a physician tending a soldier in a room in the trenches. Coloured charcoal drawing.
  • Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.
  • World War One: two orderlies and a working dog of the German Red Cross. Halftone, c. 1916.
  • Russo-Japanese War: army medical staff treating the wounded in a field at Linglingtun, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • A wounded soldier is helped on the ground by a medical officer under instruction from a mounted army doctor. Chromolithograph produced with a pantograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • AIDS prevention advert by the RFSU
  • AIDS prevention adver by the RFSU
  • Boer War: a British officer on a battlefield demanding possession of the wounded from the Boers. Halftone, 1900, after R. M. Paxton after E. Prater.
  • A mother appeals to a tuberculosis nurse to save her baby son from tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by N. Rettroni [? name indistinct], 1932.
  • A beach littered with numerous people in a variety of dress and engaged in various activities against a blue and white fence bordered with tall buildings at the top; a message about hope in the fight against AIDS. Colour lithograph by James Rizzi, 1996.
  • Message about hope in the fight against AIDS
  • Protection of women and girls from AIDS: endorsement by six Chinese celebrities. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • A nurse with children as part of a campaign against tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after H. Cheffer, 1935.
  • In the battle against tuberculosis, a portrait of Calmette, as the saviour of children through his BCG vaccine, invites the purchase of fund-raising stamps. Colour lithograph after H. Cheffer, 1934.