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  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: children patients, nurses and doctors sitting on a balcony in the sunshine. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a ward for children, protected by bars, with patients, doctors and nurses. Photograph.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one patient has his leg dressed, another gets injected and two nurses roll a bandage. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?] one drying her hair in front of a fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
  • The Royal United Hospital, Bath: nurses and patients on a female ward; potted plants on central tables. Photograph, ca. 1870.
  • Patients being tended and treated by nurses and physicians on a hospital ward. Line engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • Patients being tended and treated by nurses and physicians on a hospital ward. Line engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • The Royal United Hospital, Bath: nurses and patients on a male ward; potted plants on a central table. Photograph, ca. 1870.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the interior of a ward with nurses and patients. Wood engraving by E. Gilks after W. A. Delamotte.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: boy patients wrapped in blankets, strapped into portable wooden beds on wheels, by nurses. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • Interior of a state clinic, Pennsylvania: a nurse is shown seated at a desk, while doctor measures a girl's height and other patients wait to be seen. Photograph, 1910/1930?.
  • H.R.H. The Princess Louise, with many patients, nurses and doctors in a ward of the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, Chelsea. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles, 1876.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-naked woman in front of other doctors and a nurse, other female patients are waiting in the background. Process print of a wood engraving by G.D.I. after D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.
  • A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-naked woman in front of other doctors and a nurse, other female patients are waiting in the background. Process print of a wood engraving by G.D.I. after D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.
  • The Hôtel Dieu, Paris: interior showing patients being nursed by monks and nuns. Woodcut.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.
  • A doctor and some women attend to and prepare bandages for a wounded military man lying in comfortable surroundings. Coloured pen and pencil drawing by A. Lynch.
  • A hospital physician asks a patient about his drinking, the patient replies whatever is on offer. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.
  • Franco-Prussian War: hospital ward, Dieulouard. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.
  • Boer War: hospital camp treating patients. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A physician holds up a glass of urine in a hospital. Pen drawing.
  • A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.