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  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: two patients being treated by a doctor who injects one with chaulmoogra oil. Photograph, 1921.
  • A boy injecting himself: educating against drug abuse in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Two lesbian women preparing to inject themselves representing a warning to the lesbian community about being HIV positive by the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one patient has his leg dressed, another gets injected and two nurses roll a bandage. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Louis Cobbett injecting a hamster with anti-toxin in the Pathology Department of Cambridge University, assisted by Alfred Clark. Copy photograph, ca. 1960 after the original photograph, ca. 1905 (?).
  • A syringe attached to a heart poised to inject into an arm; an advertisement for donating blood to save life. Colour lithograph by the National AIDS Organisation (NACO), September 1996.
  • Four men injecting themselves with drugs; a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and contracting HIV by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca.1997.
  • Take care; don't share : AIDS is spread by sharing injecting equipment and having unsafe sex : free syringes, needles and condoms are avaiable from / Druglink ; designed by Miles Chambers.
  • A man's arm holds a syringe that is poised to inject a woman's arm within a red no entry sign; advertisement for the AIDS Project by the California Department of Health Services. Colour lithograph.
  • A clock in which the hands incorporate a sequence of six photographs of a couple making love then sharing a needle to inject themselves; advertisement for safe sex by the Department of Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A boy looks up at two hands exchanging a packet of drugs representing a warning about the dangers of injecting drugs and contracting AIDS issued in Spanish by the New York State Health Department. Colour lithograph.
  • A man and woman dressed in swimwear flexing their muscles with their arms above their heads representing the risks of injecting steroids and contracting the HIV virus; advertisement by the Public Health Department of North York, Ontario. Colour lithograph.
  • A couple embrace, an arm being injected and a pregnant woman with a cross-section of her foetus within a decorative border; an advertisement for St Stephen's Community House for people affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by A. Caverhill.
  • A man's hand gripping onto a leather strap used to inject drugs with the message 'remember clean needles'; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A woman with a loud speaker emitting the word 'SIDA' with an orange arrow incorporating a syringe with a foetus (?) below; a warning to women about the dangers of injecting drugs and contracting AIDS during pregnancy. Colour lithograph, ca. 1992.
  • A syringe, the silhouette of a man injecting himself, a couple talking and a man receiving a blood transfusion in a bed; a warning about the risks of contracting AIDS through drug abuse and contaminated blood. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man's hand holding a syringe poised to inject into his arm with five further smaller images showing the procedures for safe drug use; an advertisement by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Torsten Schmidt and Detlev Pusch.
  • The silhouette of a man with one hand at his chin as if thinking, a syringe poised to inject someone's arm and a couple making love; a warning about the dangers of contracting AIDS through sharing needles and unsafe sex. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man injects drugs into his arm as he leans back with his eyes shut against a wall; a man sitting beside a grave clutching a photograph of a woman and child; a warning about the dangers of drug abuse and AIDS by Programa Compañeros. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Illustrations showing how AIDS is spread including two naked figures for sexual intercourse, a man being injected with infected blood, an infected woman during pregnancy and an infected blood transfusion; an advertisement for AIDS education from the Ministry of Health AIDS Control Programme. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • The HIV virus with the silhouette of a couple, 2 people injecting drugs and a blood transfusion; below further illustrations relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including through insect bites and handshaking; a warning about how AIDS is and is not contracted. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man in a pink t-shirt injects a needle into the arm of another man who squints in pain with five illustrated steps for the sterilisation and safe disposal of needles; advertisment by the ACON, The AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Jamie Dunbar.
  • Illustrations showing how AIDS is spread including two naked figures for sexual intercourse, a man being injected with infected blood, an infected woman during pregnancy and an infected blood transfusion; an advertisement for AIDS education from the Ministry of Health AIDS Control Programme (French version). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • The base of the brain with part of the medulla oblongata, the blood vessels injected with wax, and the cerebellum (Table XII, figs 1-2), after Cowper in Ridley (1695); the foetal heart, the larynx and the viscera (Table XIII), after an etching by G. Vandergucht in Cheselden (1740) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • Four illustrations showing the dangers of donating contaminated blood and transmitting AIDS through injecting, unsafe sex and pregnancy; a further 4 illustrations show ways in which AIDS is not transmitted from mosquito bites to sharing food; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • A large syringe about to inject into a row of arms with a personification of the HIV virus bearing a red bandana and the pronged fork of the devil lurks nearby; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.