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  • A doctor takes the temperature of a gloomy patient. Reproduction of a drawing by G. Jennis, 1919.
  • A credulous congregation listening to a sermon by a fiery preacher. Engraving by T. Cook, 1798, after W. Hogarth.
  • Dr. Clifford Allbutt
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A woman in bed recovering from childbirth, a midwife washes the baby while another attendant looks after the mother. Woodcut.
  • Artificial incubator for premature babies, by Mathieu.
  • A man foolishly trying to treat his own illnesses by imitating a physician. Colour lithograph by C. E.(?), 1931.
  • A ward in a children's hospital, Lambeth. Photograph, 1925.
  • A camp site for the railway engineer of the East Indian Railway Company with staff preparing food and tending animals. Wood engraving after E. Braddon, 1857.
  • The "eclipse" drenching bottle.
  • Established over a century : by royal warrant of appointment to H.M. King George : Arnold & Sons (in association with Savory & Moore, Ltd., John Bell & Croyden) : makers of superior veterinary instruments & appliances, 50-52, Wigmore Street, London, W.1. Works: Lawrence Road, Tottenham, N.15.
  • Established over a century : by royal warrant of appointment to H.M. King George : Arnold & Sons (in association with Savory & Moore, Ltd., John Bell & Croyden) : makers of superior veterinary instruments & appliances, 50-52, Wigmore Street, London, W.1. Works: Lawrence Road, Tottenham, N.15.
  • A woman (Yang She), facing front, with a massive pendent tumour hanging down from her neck. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1837.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.