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  • Above, the last interview of Reverend John Rogers with his wife and his eleven children before his ordeal; below, Reverend John Rogers tied to the stake and burning to death rubbing his hands over the fire. Engraving with etching, 1813.
  • A naked woman rubs herself with a towel. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man is violently rubbed with magnets. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • Keep your hands soft and white with Zam-Buk : "rub it in" every night.
  • Curb cure for horses and cattle : directions for use : to be rubbed in at intervals of two to three days till applied eight to ten times.
  • The words 'SIDA' being rubbed out with a rubber bearing the EU symbol representing an advertisement for the 3rd European conference on the care and treatment of AIDS in Paris on 12 and 13th March 1992; advertisement by Mairie de Paris. Colour lithograph.
  • Children playing ball, a girl riding a go-cart, a young couple rub noses and a long-haired youth moulding a pot; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Oficina para la Prevención y Lucha contra el Sida and oficina Panamericana de la Salud. Colour lithograph by Marco Caamaño, ca. 1995.
  • Henry Robinson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, shown in clerical regalia on his tomb. Process print, 1898.
  • Henry Airay, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, shown in clerical regalia on his tomb. Process print, 1898.
  • A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.
  • In buccopharyngeal infections Dequadin lozenges add up to effective treatment : Sir Roger de Trumpington ...
  • In buccopharyngeal infections Dequadin lozenges add up to effective treatment : Sir Roger de Trumpington ...
  • Chinese Qigong practice, from early C20 illustrated MS
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoyin exercises, Brocade of the Dragon, 3
  • A devil overseeing a man having his back scrubbed; representing John St. John Long and his fatal method of treatment.
  • Portrait of Duncan Liddel attributed to George Jamieson.
  • Prehistoric symbols carved on Rocher du pas du Roi.
  • Trachoma WHO grade: trachomatous trichiasis (TT)
  • Inflamed dental ulcer on the tongue
  • Chinese woodcut: Qigong exercise to nourish essence and Qi
  • Leprosy: daily foot care
  • Dental ulcer on the tongue
  • Convincing : it is impossible for any argument in favour of Sunlight to be more convincing than a trial of the soap... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Philippe Ricord. Coloured wood engraving (?), 1867, after A. Gill.
  • Trachoma WHO grade: TT with CO
  • Condylomata on the tongue of a man suffering from secondary syphilis
  • Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • The martyrdom of Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa. Etching after T. Stothard.
  • Trachoma WHO grade: trachomatous trichiasis (TT)
  • Four donkeys inhaling foetid gas and having their backs scrubbed with vitriol; representing John St. John Long's fatal method of therapy. Etching by H. Heath, 1830.