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  • Tales of gay sex. 16, Let those fingers do the talking... / Terrence Higgins Trust, Deaf MESMAC.
  • A woman in despair raising her hands above her head with clenched fingers. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1962.
  • A woman in despair raising her hands above her head with clenched fingers. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1962.
  • Female genitalia held open by two fingers to show an area of diseased tissue. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton.
  • Female genitalia held open by two fingers to show an area of diseased tissue. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • Female genitalia held open by two fingers to show an area of diseased tissue. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
  • Female genitalia held open by the fingers to show an area of diseased tissue. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
  • Head of a man with spiky hair who looks through a gap in his fingers. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A sitting woman, her fingers and toes are severely deformed. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • Head of a man with spiky hair who looks through a gap in his fingers. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • Female genitalia held open by two fingers to show an area of diseased tissue. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
  • Female genitalia held open by two fingers to show an area of diseased tissue. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1866.
  • Dissection of the hand and fingers: three figures, showing the tendons and blood vessels. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?.
  • Diseased tissue on the thumbs and fingers of a woman, showing symptoms of syphilitic onychia. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1870.
  • A Chinese prisoner kneeling on the ground is having his fingers tortured by three men. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
  • A man's hands, palms down, opened out and spread onto black cloth, showing misshapen fingers. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1862.
  • A hand which has lost two fingers, owing to attempts to clean dangerous machines while they are running. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 1949.
  • A hand behind a microphone with erect penises as fingers, the central finger wearing a condom; advertising safe sex for lesbians and homosexuals. Colour lithograph for the SAD Schorer Stichting.
  • Leprosy: a red patch on an Indian man's arm causing two fingers to bend. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson?), 1921/1950 (?), after Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
  • Diseased skin and nails on the hands and fingers of sufferers of a variety of diseases, including psoriasis and syphilis. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.
  • Diseased skin and nails on the hands and fingers of sufferers of a variety of diseases, including psoriasis and syphilis. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.
  • Musician playing the dump, a drum which is held vertically and struck with the fingers, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Diseased skin surrounding the anus of a woman, as seen from behind, with two fingers holding the buttocks apart. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, ca. 1853.
  • The AIDS red ribbon wrapped around two fingers with text in Chinese representing an AIDS awareness advertisement by the YMCA, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A hand with the middle finger cut off, contrasted with a flower growing in its place from the palm of the hand; advertising care in protecting the fingers. Colour lithograph after B. Chadebec.
  • Above, eruption of tuberculosis cutis between the fingers, below, skin on the tip of the nose affected by lupus erythematosus. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
  • A woman standing, viewed from the front, her shoulders and arms are unclothed and she has misshapen fingers. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1862.
  • A hand with fingers bearing numbered condoms; advertisement for National Condom Week Feb. 14-21, by the Pharmacy Planning Service. Lithograph by Fred Lyon and David Smith Graphics.
  • The muscles of the lower arm which act on the fingers, thumb and wrist raised from their origins and left at their insertions. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • A man whose hands and forearms are exposed against a black background, fingers stretched, revealing less mobility in right hand. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1859.