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  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • William Harvey demonstrating the palpitations of the foetal heart of a deer to Charles I. Engraving by H. Lemon, 1851, after an oil painting by R. Hannah, 1848.
  • William Harvey demonstrating the palpitations of the foetal heart of a deer to Charles I. Engraving by H. Lemon, 1851, after an oil painting by R. Hannah, 1848.
  • A Sicilian boy, naked from the waist up, his hand level with his shoulder, crowned with leaves. Photograph by W. von Gloeden, 1901.
  • A Sicilian boy, naked from the waist up, his hand level with his shoulder, crowned with leaves. Photograph by W. von Gloeden, 1901.
  • A brother and sister rest in a rocky landscape and play with a baby. Engraving by R.C. Bell after W. Mulready. R.A.
  • A naked man with hemiplegia walking with a stick: (above) from the side, (below) from the front. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man with hemiplegia walking with a stick: (above) from the side, (below) from the front. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).
  • Albert Letine in drag. Postcard, ca. 1907.
  • Albert Letine in drag. Postcard, ca. 1907.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.
  • The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.
  • The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.
  • The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.
  • A pedlar of jewelry reads from a sheet, ladies inspect his wares, and a shepherd looks delighted. Engraving by S. Davenport after J. Holmes after C.R. Leslie.
  • Adam and Eve and the serpent; advertising an exhibition on sexually transmitted diseases at Altonaer Museum Hamburg. Colour lithograph after P.O. Rössler, 1926.
  • A nonchalant doctor dancing a jig amidst unhappy patients in a decrepit hospital ward. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.
  • A nonchalant doctor dancing a jig amidst unhappy patients in a decrepit hospital ward. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.
  • Artists painting in an exhibition of paintings at the British Institution. Process print after A.E. Chalon.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.