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  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in uniform are marching towards the penitentiary after hard labour outside, supervised by armed guards. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners are sitting at benches eating and reading as a man at the top of the room watches over them. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamay.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in chains are working with hammers breaking stones on the side of the roadway, a guard in a jacket and trousers with a cane is watching over them from under a tree. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • Die Therapie der Gegenwart : Medizinisch-chirurgische Rundschau für praktische Ärzte.
  • Die Therapie der Gegenwart : Medizinisch-chirurgische Rundschau für praktische Ärzte.
  • Die Geschichte der Chirurgie in Bayern / von Georg Maurer und Hannelore Hartl.
  • Die Hygiene der menschlichen Fortpflanzung : Versuch einer praktischen Eugenik / von Alfred Grotjahn.
  • Die Geschichte der Chirurgie in Bayern / von Georg Maurer und Hannelore Hartl.
  • Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärtze aller Zeiten und Völker / unter Mitwirkung E. Albert [and others] und unter Spezial-Redaktion von E. Gurlt und A Wernich ; herausgegeben von August Hirsch.
  • Saint Cecilia: her death. Engraving by G.B. de Poilly after N. de Poilly after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • Market scene in Dieppe, France, 19th July, 1817
  • Street scene in Rouen, France, 21st July, 1817, taken by camera lucida on the second day of Lister's visit
  • View of the Manam river, Bangkok, Siam, with sailing ships anchored
  • Mount Meru Bangkok, Siam
  • Watercolous of a palace and bridge along the banks of the Rhine created via a camera lucida
  • A rural man talking to his physician in the street. Drawing by S. Wood.
  • Smoke : a study of town air / by Julius B. Cohen and Arthur G. Ruston.
  • A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
  • An itinerant salesman in ragged clothes selling toasting forks, files, skewers and other implements. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A woman begging with three children, one of them a naked infant, under the arch of a town-wall. Lithograph.
  • A dentist encounters a large, violent patient. Reproduction of a drawing by A. Wallis Mills, 1920.
  • A gentleman giving alms to two lame beggars by leaning over an inscribed banner. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, 1632.
  • A woman carrying a basket of eggs looks at a poor old man who is working as a chiffonnier and picking up rubbish with a stick: she exclaims that they were once lovers. Lithograph by H. Bellangé, 1826.
  • An omnibus full of distraught women due to leeches having escaped from their broken jar. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A Scotsman protests to his doctor that he should not have to pay for his presence during the period in which he was delirious. Reproduction of a drawing by P. Fraser, 1920.
  • 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.
  • Two penguins converse about AIDS representing an advertisement for AIDS and HIV-related events between 28th and 30th November and 1st and 3rd December (1998?) in Japan. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A country woman suggesting to a lady of means that she encourage the local doctor even though all his previous patients have died. Wood engraving by A.S. Boyd, 1896.
  • Blue-coat Hospital, London: the front elevation, with horse-drawn and pedestrian traffic in the foreground. Wood engraving by R. Clayton.
  • A doctor visiting a senile old man and discussing his verdict with the patient's wife. Wood engraving by C.E. Brock, 1902.