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  • An old man dozing in a chair; representing the eightieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
  • A blind beggar walks past two figures guided by his dog with a begging bowl. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
  • A physician called out of bed by a hoax night call. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 18--.
  • A blind man on his knees begging, a woman and dog behind him. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • Moses strikes a rock and water pours forth in abundance. Etching after F. Sigrist.
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen, brought to him by an elderly woman. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • Saint Peter and Saint John heal the lame man. Engraving by B. Franco, il Semolei, after Raphael.
  • Christ crowned with thorns. Engraving after A. Durer, 1512.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with assistants at Covent Garden, London. Etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • Two people come into a pharmacy to ask for advice, the apothecary sits resting his gouty leg. Etching by N. Loder after himself.
  • Two drunken war veterans staggering along arm-in-arm. Coloured lithograph by E. Purcell.
  • Two uniformed war veterans with a young soldier by a statue in the Siegesallee, Berlin. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • A naked man with hemiplegia walking with a stick: (above) from the side, (below) from the front. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A hypochondriac patient consulting a cynical physician: the patient is healthy, but the physician will provide a treatment that will produce some symptoms of ill-health. Pen drawing, 183-(?).
  • A hunchbacked physician talking to a patient who has a deformed hip. Engraving.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner standing in the hall at the Royal Hospital, leaning on his stick. Watercolour painting.
  • Job lies on a pile of dung dressed in a loincloth and covered in boils, his wife goes to fetch a bucket of water. Woodcut.
  • Christ cures a blind man by laying his hand on his eyes. Etching.
  • The apostles Peter and John heal the lame man. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Raphael.
  • A physician talking to a patient who is in bed. Etching by D. Berger, 1775, after D. Chodowiecki.
  • A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Line engraving by F.A. Schröder after A. Brouwer.
  • Aaron points his rod at the river and it begins to flow with frogs. Etching.
  • The Virgin Mary and Christ child with saints (the 'Felicini' altar piece). Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after F. Francia, 1494.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.
  • A doctor placing his hand on the head of a sick boy, outside a country cottage. Photogravure after R. Hedley, 1898.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner reading from a book to a small boy, both sitting on the balustrade at the Royal Naval Hospital. Wood engraving.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing, wearing scarlet coat, and tricorn hat with a sprig of oak on it, leaning on a stick and carrying a cylindrical leather satchel, others in the background. Coloured etching by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Lithograph after A. Brouwer.