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  • 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.
  • A sick baby in a hospital bed, with a graph line plunging downwards, indicating the need for blood donations. Colour lithograph after Eileen Evans.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • A red telephone cord twisted in the shape of the AIDS red ribbon with the increasing statistics of AIDS victims: "1st January 1985: 200 sick; 1st January 1995: 40,000 sick"; includes a block of text explaining the need for the SIDA Info Service. Colour lithograph by L'Agence Verte.
  • A red telephone cord twisted in the shape of the AIDS red ribbon with the increasing statistics of AIDS victims: "1st January 1984: 200 sick; 1st January 1994: 40,000 sick"; includes a block of text explaining the need for the SIDA Info Service. Colour lithograph by L'Agence Verte.
  • Concentrated carbolic acid : to be well diluted before use, according to the directions on the label and case : for the household, sick room, stable, kennel, etc. : poison.
  • An abstract of certain instructions given the Commissioners for taking care of the sick and wounded men, for the relief of widows, children and impotent parents of such as shall be slain in His Majesties service at sea.
  • A man about to go hunting and a man in a wheelchair, both drinking Fritz Seyfarth's Conservator (health drink), advertising the product for the healthy and the sick. Lithograph by Leonard Fries.
  • Sick people entreating a bishop saint to intercede for them. Etching by the Comte de Caylus after G. Brandi.
  • A sick child sitting on her father's knee while her mother prepares some soup for her, a dead rabbit is lying on the floor. Chromolithograph after J. Clark.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London: the street facade of the Jubilee wing. Process print after R.S. Ayling, 1890.
  • Two people tending a man sick with AIDS as a woman stirs a pot on a stove to the right; an advertisement for compassionate care for those families affected by AIDS by the Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two people tending a man sick with AIDS as a woman stirs a pot on a stove to the right; an advertisement for compassionate care for those families affected by AIDS by the Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A report of the state of the Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Northumberland : from its first institution, April the 13th, 1751, to the 7th of April, 1752.
  • A report of the state of the Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Northumberland : from its first institution, April the 13th, 1751, to the 7th of April, 1752.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London: the main facade. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after D. R. Warry, 1872.
  • Two people tending a man sick with AIDS as a woman stirs a pot on a stove to the right; an advertisement for compassionate care for those families affected by AIDS by the Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe (Shona version). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill].
  • The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill].
  • The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill].
  • The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill].
  • A woman in a yellow jumper helping a sick man lying on the floor; an advertisement for a leaflet on facts on AIDS at Work by the Department of Health, New Zealand. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Darfur, Sudan: two men collecting mud from a lake in a volcanic crater; the mud is sold for cooking and medicinal purposes. Photograph by W.H. Greany, 1939.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London: plans of the ground and first floors of the Jubilee wing. Photo lithograph by Sprague & Co., 1890.
  • A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A woman and child caring for a man sick with AIDS in bed with further illustrations demonstrating how to protect from and prevent AIDS; an advertisement for AIDS education from the Ministry of Health AIDS Control Programme. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • A transvestite nurse attending a man yelling with pain on a hospital bed; advertising fair rates of medical insurance for people who are sick or dying of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Wolfgang Mudra and Jürgen Rocholl for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 1992.
  • A woman and child caring for a man sick with AIDS in bed with further illustrations demonstrating how to protect from and prevent AIDS (French version); an advertisement for AIDS education from the Ministry of Health AIDS Control Programme. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • Photographs of people with quotes from them about AIDS against a blue background bearing words 'krank' [sick] and 'AIDS'; an advertisement by DoRo for the German Health Ministry. Colour lithograph by kunterbunt gmbh, 1995.