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  • A soldier in drag, dressed in a bonnet and holding an umbrella. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: boy patients in wheelchairs and on crutches, laughing. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • A packed mule on a mountain pass with a sheep in the background. Chalk lithograph.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: boy patients making baskets from hospital beds outdoors. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • Paracelsus, Opus chirurgicum
  • An soldier in a concert party poses in drag, wearing white and holding a chair, standing in front of a train. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • An soldier in a concert party poses in drag, wearing white and holding a chair, standing in front of a train. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: children playing on a rocking horse with a nurse attending. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria: a grandee riding on horseback with his attendants; the beheading of a criminal; the use of retractable roofs in houses. Engraving, 1777.
  • Four slaves in East Africa chained at the neck carrying brushwood fuel; other slaves chained at the neck working in rice fields. Wood engraving or process print after J.B. Zwecker after J.A. Grant.
  • Colombia: an out-house for preparation of food. Coloured lithograph by C. Empson, 1836.
  • A man, possibly William Conolly, wearing a frock coat and a wig, holding a tricorn hat under his left arm. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the cardinal. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the peasant. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • A woman and a man cuddling and rubbing noses; representing the need for protection from the risk of contracting AIDS, even for apparently faithful couples. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the alderman. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • The dance of death: Death on horseback approaches the city. Woodcut after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • Am Meeresstrand / Liebig's Company.
  • Am Meeresstrand / Liebig's Company.
  • In der Sennhütte / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • In der Sennhütte / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • A family of teddy bears lying beneath blankets dreaming of enjoying healthy family activities together including going on a trip to Disneyland; advertisement for family planning and safer sex to prevent AIDS by the Office of Family Planning, Hawaii Department of Health. Colour lithograph by June Sakutori.
  • A woman reads a family planning method brochure as she sits with her husband and children outside their home: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and ships. Engraving by C. Guttenberg, after B. West, 1770.
  • Acu-moxa chart: small intestine channel of hand taiyang
  • A crocodile emerging from the Zambezi river and biting off a woman's leg. Chromolithograph, 18--.
  • A woman attacked by a crocodile emerging from the water, in central Africa. Lithograph, 1874.
  • The dance of death: Death emerges from the ground and is greeted by a group of allegorical women, symbolising the vices. Woodcut after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • Bocanema, Colombia: a waterfall. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.