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  • Boer War: wounded soldiers arriving at Pretoria train station after Modder Spuit. Watercolour sketch, 1900.
  • Officers recuperating on board the "Hercules", Hong Kong. Wood engraving after G.W. Cooke (?), 1858.
  • Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: in the aftermath of an explosion in Bulawayo, the injured are cared for in the street. Halftone by Hentschel after C.J. Staniland after C. E. Fripp, 1896.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded being treated at Rezonville. Coloured wood engraving by Xylographisches Institut von A. Closs.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Diagrams illustrating how to bandage and set fractures in splints. Engraving by J. Johnstone.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • [5 ΛΕΠΤΑ charity stamp showing a soldier with his left arm in a sling against a red cross].
  • [10 ΛΕΠΤΑ charity stamp showing a soldier with his right arm in a sling greeted by a woman holding a baby against a red cross].
  • A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.
  • Telephus recovering from his fatal wound with bandaged thigh and carrying Orestes. Coloured ink drawing by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after an Attic cup, ca. 450 B.C.
  • Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
  • Wounded patients lying on stretchers at a dressing station on board H.M.S. Erebus, Monitor, Russia. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
  • A sailor setting the broken leg of another sailor after an accident on deck. Halftone after F. Brangwyn, 1895.
  • Franco-Prussian War: hospital ward, Dieulouard. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.
  • A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.
  • Serbo-Turkish War, Turkey: hospital camp at Magra near Kars. Wood engraving by H. Harral after G. Broling, 1877.
  • The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria. Line engraving by J. Rogers after T. Stothard.
  • Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale receiving wounded soldiers at Scutari Hospital. Process print by S. Bellin after J. Barrett.
  • The good Samaritan tending to the wounds of a half-dead man. Line engraving by G.H. Adcock after Dietrici.
  • A soldier having an arm amputated. Lithograph by Villain.