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  • The infant Oedipus is tied to a tree by the shepherd to whom he was entrusted by his parents. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • Franco-Prussian War: Civil unrest in Paris. Wood engraving after W. Simpson.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving on yellow silk.
  • A surgeon applying a plaster to an irate male patient's leg. Etching.
  • Surgical stitches and knots. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • A piece of apparatus designed by J. Wathen to bind together a broken leg. Etching by J. Bell.
  • James M'Gillivray, a man shot in the shoulder in the siege of Nijmegen (1794): the shot developed into an ulcer which was cured by John Bell. Coloured stipple etching by J. Stewart after J. Bell, ca. 1826.
  • Wounded officers being carried on stretchers, Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India. Coloured lithograph.
  • Boer War: showing the work of the ambulance men and transport of the wounded. Process print after F. Theamen?.
  • A man with a bandaged head. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • Two diagrams comparing two sets of apparatus for the leg designed by Vesalius and Belloq. Etching by J. Bell.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • A frail and wounded soldier being saved from death by the care of his young wife. Etching by B. Roger after L. Sicard.
  • A frail and wounded soldier being saved from death by the care of his young wife. Etching by B. Roger after L. Sicard.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded German soldiers on their way home from France. Wood engraving.
  • A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.
  • Two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.
  • A satyr wearing eyeglasses, with young assistant, removes a thorn from the foot of a male faun who leans against female companion. Engraving by G. Piccini after J. Muller after B. Spranger.
  • A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.
  • A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.
  • Indian Rebellion: ambulancemen and soldiers searching for and assisting the wounded. Coloured lithograph by A. Laby, 1859, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) cured of a potentially fatal wound with some rust from Achilles' spear, with which he had originally been wounded. Engraving by B. Picart, 1730, after P. Brebiette.
  • A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) cured of a potentially fatal wound with some rust from Achilles' spear, with which he had originally been wounded. Engraving by B. Picart, 1730, after P. Brebiette.
  • Two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.
  • Venus pulling a thorn from her foot in an elaborate rural setting, a rabbit accompanies her. Engraving by M. Dente, 1516, after Raphael.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) cured of a potentially fatal wound with some rust from Achilles' spear, with which he had originally been wounded. Engraving after P. Brebiette, 16--.
  • A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.
  • Russo-Turkish War: wounded Russian soldiers being brought back to the rear at the siege of Plevna. Wood engraving by C.Roberts after I. Montagu, 1877.