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  • Two uniformed German army doctors standing in the grounds of the House of Oldenburg. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • Wound man showing all the weapons and points of injury. Woodcut.
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
  • John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Engraving, 1823.
  • A furious cuckold rushes at his rival with a sword; representing vice as its own punishment. Engraving after O. van Veen (Vaenius), 1612.
  • Sir John Franklin. Lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Saint Peter Martyr. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.
  • A German army medical officer treating a wounded man who is supported by a third soldier, in the open air. Coloured lithograph, c.1870.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A nun of the order of St. Vincent de Paul dressing a wounded soldier's leg. Wash drawing by E. de Feu, 1832.
  • A woman with a sword and a balance; representing justice. Etching, 16--.
  • A uniformed soldier from the army medical staff. Watercolour, 1886.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: a fashionably dressed young couple greeting an acquaintance [an officer?] at a soiree. Mezzotint, 1772, after a painting attributed to J. Sanders.
  • Two uniformed war veterans with a young soldier by a statue in the Siegesallee, Berlin. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.
  • Judith with a sword holding the head of Holofernes. Coloured lithograph by F. Hanfstaengel after A. Varotari, il Padovanino.
  • Rembrandt, portrayed perhaps as the prodigal son, stands with his arm round a lady (represented by his wife Saskia) by a banquet table and raises his glass. Lithograph after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Coloured engraving by W.P. Sherlock, 1817, after H. Holbein, 1542.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Corporal Trim reading a sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb; weapons hang from above. Process print after Rembrandt.
  • Two uniformed German soldiers carrying in a battle victim to a military doctor who waits in a barn. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.
  • Christ appears to Saint John the Evangelist with eyes aflame and a sword in his mouth. Etching by P. van der Borcht.
  • The death of Bayard: surrendering to the spanish general. Line engraving by C.N. Malapeau after A. Borel.
  • The death of General Marceau, during the retreat at Altenkirchen, 1796. Line engraving by M.G. Eichler, 1817, after A.-L. Giradet.
  • Two men fighting while animals sit in pairs placidly watching; an allegory of man's ability to fight his own kind. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.
  • King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Engraving by B. Baron, 1736, after H. Holbein, 1542.