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  • The birth of John the Baptist. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • Philiates (Filiates), Albania (subsequently Greece): the town and surrounding mountains. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • Ventilated improved pit latrine construction
  • The circumcision of Christ by a bald mohel. Etching by F.G. Aliamet, 1765, after G. Reni.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • A horse has been killed after jumping a hurdle in a steeplechase: the jockey holding a whip looks at it with concern. Wood engraving by E. Froment, 1874 after W. Small.
  • Leishmaniasis: health education
  • Actors in the pantomime "Sindbad" at Drury Lane.
  • Actors in the pantomime "Sindbad" at Drury Lane.
  • An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.
  • Ernest Lotinga in battledress and wearing makeup. Photographic postcard, 193-.
  • Ernest Lotinga in battledress and wearing makeup. Photographic postcard, 193-.
  • Two hands opening the shirt of a woman to reveal the words 'I've got AIDS' on her chest in Chinese; a warning about the dangers of casual sex and AIDS by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (4)
  • A doctor telling his apprentice how to use language correctly. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1846.
  • Two hands opening the shirt of a woman to reveal the words 'I've got AIDS' on her chest; a warning about the dangers of casual sex and AIDS by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A madman designated as the poet Nathaniel Lee in Bethlem Hospital. Mezzotint by J. Watts, 1778.
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair at a Buddhist monastery in Burma. Halftone after a photograph by R. Grant Brown.
  • An organ-grinder is carrying a very large organ down the street as he passes a fellow musician with a much smaller instrument and a monkey; representing evolution by natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A man with an eye patch and a pipe is talking to two other men. Glyphograph after George Cruikshank.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.
  • Acu-moxa chart: Yin Heel Vessel, Chinese woodcut
  • Benin: a healing ceremony during which patients are swept with brooms after their illness has been driven into some chickens. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • A wife sending her husband away on holiday in order to pursue an affair with a "nerve specialist" who has got the husband out of the way by recommending a change of scene for him. Colour process print, c. 1920.
  • William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
  • Two hands opening the shirt of a woman to reveal the words 'Saya Ada Virus AIDS' (I've got AIDS) on her chest; a warning about the dangers of casual sex and AIDS by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.