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  • World War One: soldiers from Bermuda in a casualty clearing station. Photograph, 1916.
  • A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.
  • The Old (now 'La Specola') and New Observatories, Florence, Italy. Reproduction of a pen drawing by A. Pochini.
  • Two Japanese women on a sandy shore, one crouches down and points across the water. Gouache painting.
  • Surgeons examining a Mauser bullet in a man's chest via the use of an X-ray. Halftone, 1900, after W. Small.
  • Avec les compliments du Comité International de Médecine et de Pharmacie Militaire : Liège (Belgique).
  • A doctor visiting a patient who insists on self medication; representing Lord Rosebery's chairmanship of a committee advocating reform in the House of Lords. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1907.
  • 6 toothbrushes, primitive and modern.
  • Queen Alexandra visiting the sick in the Patrick ward, Dublin Hospital for the Dying, Ireland. Pen and ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1903, after H. Mills.
  • Boer War: a medical examination of soldiers at Cape Town. Halftone, 1900.
  • The Chemical Laboratory
  • What the doctor found : in the body of Frank Wilson, who was operated on for appendicitis in a hospital at Cairo (Ill.), were found:- a button hook, a hat pin, three keys, a lead pencil, a belt buckle, a toy pistol, three small nails, a needle, a thermometer.
  • Boer War: an army surgeon at work on a battlefield where many lie injured. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • Victoria cross gallery : Surgeon-Captain A. Martin-Leake : during the action at Vlakfontein 8, February 1902 attended several wounded under heavy fire from 40 Boers at 100 yards until wounded 3 times.
  • A troupe of travelling performers including a toothdrawer. Oil painting, 16--, after Theodor Rombouts.
  • A troupe of travelling performers including a toothdrawer. Oil painting, 16--, after Theodor Rombouts.
  • A troupe of travelling performers including a toothdrawer. Oil painting, 16--, after Theodor Rombouts.
  • The Discobolus of Castel Porziano. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • The Discobolus of Castel Porziano. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a man being treated on a table in an open-air Japanese field hospital, others watch. Halftone after M. Cowper, after a photograph, 1904.
  • A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.
  • A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.
  • A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.
  • Boer War: a full military hospital ward in a church at Mafeteng, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after M. Maseru.
  • Every man his own doctor. In two parts. Shewing I. How every one may know his own constitution and complection, by certain signs. Also the nature and faculties of all food as well meats, as drinks ... The second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox ... and obstructions, agues. Shewing their causes and signs ... and perfect cure / [John Archer].
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Face massage
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Face massage
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Hand massage
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Hand massage
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Hand massage