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  • Bernhard Aloys von Gudden. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • Prevention of congenital syphilis, represented by a baby, a man and a woman, and a hand bursting through the letters "VD". Colour lithograph by A. Games, ca. 1951.
  • Gangrenous tonsils
  • Making him a better dog... / Spillers Victoria Foods Ltd.
  • Making him a better dog... / Spillers Victoria Foods Ltd.
  • Maori warrior lying dead in the fern near Gate Pa, 30 April 1864. Watercolour by H.G. Robley, 1864.
  • Saint Martin of Tours. Coloured lithograph after L.C. Maréchal, 1844.
  • Boy whose parents were massacred at Garden City, 1865
  • Liebig "Company's" extract of beef : J. Liebig: this signature on each jar [of the] finest meat flavouring stock for soups, sauces and made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Ltd.
  • Liebig "Company's" extract of beef : J. Liebig: this signature on each jar [of the] finest meat flavouring stock for soups, sauces and made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Ltd.
  • 'Pest house' (isolation hospital in times of plague), Tothill Fields, Westminster, London. Lithograph, c. 1840.
  • A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.
  • A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.
  • An advert for water-based lubricants
  • An emaciated man, rescued from a premature burial, lying on an outdoor hospital bed. Photograph.
  • An emaciated man, rescued from a premature burial, being helped to sit up on an outdoor hospital bed. Photograph.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Men attempt to quell the flames of the House of Commons with water piped from fire engines and a rocket attached to a man's back inscribed 'war'. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Complete skeleton of a marabou stork
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Engraving on silk, 1793.
  • Chinese woodcut: Healing by invocation
  • Chinese woodcut: Healing by invocation
  • Marker for the grave of children. Oil painting on wrought iron.
  • Marker for the grave of children. Oil painting on wrought iron.
  • Marker for the grave of children. Oil painting on wrought iron.
  • Marker for the grave of children. Oil painting on wrought iron.
  • Marker for the grave of children. Oil painting on wrought iron.
  • Marker for the grave of children. Oil painting on wrought iron.
  • Disposal of the dead, under police supervision during a cholera epidemic in Japan. Reproduction of drawing by Meisenbach after C. Fripp.