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  • The feet of a corpse with a morgue-label 'AIDS' around the right toe; warning about the risk of dying from AIDS after not using condoms. Colour lithograph by Renee Martin, ca. 1996.
  • Monument commemorating Princess Charlotte Augusta in St. George's Chapel in Windsor. Etching by T. Fairland after a sculpture by M.C. Wyatt, 1826.
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • The front of a car: below, a couple kiss in the front of a car; above, the same car in a collision; warning about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse as a cause of AIDS in youths. Colour lithograph.
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • A woman depicted as half human and half skeleton. Woodcut and letterpress.
  • Death approaches a family. Coloured woodcut.
  • Occupational death rates; 1890-1912
  • A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.
  • A mother tended by nurses sleeps as her new born child breastfeeds: The Bauchi State Mothercare Project in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Bauchi State Mothercare Project, ca. 1994.
  • A pregnant woman being led into a clinic to give birth: child birth in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Bauchi State Mothercare Project, ca. 1994.
  • Meat kills : just say no! : 850 million animals slaughtered in the UK every year / Animal Aid.
  • Meat kills : just say no! : 850 million animals slaughtered in the UK every year / Animal Aid.
  • Results of the use of Professor H. Vincent's antistreptococcic serum for septicaemia. Drawing after H. Vincent, 1934.
  • Troops attending a muster in Scotland play the game of popinjay, watched by crowds of local people. Engraving by J. Carter, 1836, after R.B. Davis.
  • A man brings a live chicken to a pregnant woman about to prepare a nutritious meal: The Bauchi State Mothercare Project in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Bauchi State Mothercare Project, ca. 1994.
  • A pregnant woman receiving advice at a clinic: The Bauchi State Mothercare Project in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Bauchi State Mothercare Project, ca. 1994.
  • A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.
  • A stippled impression of a woman pulling away from a man on a bed pulling her skirt up; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Eugenio Dittborn, ca. 1995.
  • A solitary unhappy child compared with a happy child playing with her parents: CHILD project in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Uganda Nutrition and Ministry of Health, 1998.
  • Collecting water from an improved water source
  • Loimologia: or, An historical account of the plague in London in 1665: : with precautionary directions against the like contagion. / By Nath. Hodges, M. D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians, who resided in the city all that time. To which is added, An essay on the different causes of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious: with remarks on the infection now in France, and the most probable means to prevent its spreading here. By John Quincy, M. D.
  • A hunting dog chasing after fowl while the huntsman reloads his gun. Etching by J. Scott after A. D. Cooper.
  • The dance of death: the last chase. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A group of doctors and medical students surround a dying patient. Watercolour attributed to T. Rowlandson.
  • Philemon and Baucis providing food and shelter for Jupiter [Zeus] and Mercury [Hermes] who are disguised as travellers. Engraving after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • The funeral procession of the Dutch naval commander de Ruyter in 1677. Etching.
  • The death of General Sir Robert Sale on the battlefield. Engraving by J. Rogers after J. Gilbert, 1845.