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  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: boy patients in wheelchairs and on crutches, laughing. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
  • Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting on the ground at a picnic. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • Dr. Marsh. Photograph by Maull & Co.
  • Physiotherapist with patient in hospital corridor, UK.
  • A gay man helping his partner who is disabled and has AIDS; an advertisement for caring for disabled partners with AIDS. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • By her majesty's letters patent : comfort for invalids : 8, Denmark St., Soho London / J. Alderman.
  • A young man pushing a lady in a wheel chair or rickshaw. Engraving, 1771.
  • "Look! I can walk again" : join the March of Dimes : fight infantile paralysis / National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
  • Old Calabar dog biscuits : moderato : allure modérée.
  • Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.
  • Old Calabar dog biscuits : moderato : allure modérée.
  • Ultima novedad! : Stresscaps : fórmula vitamínica contra la fatiga / Lederle Laboratories Division.
  • Royal patent adjustable invalid chair, shown in horizontal and upright positions. Coloured etching, 1810.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the new wing looking west. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.
  • Cohn-Barnard Sanitarium, Martinsville, Indiana: patients (and staff?) Photograph by Vista Studio, 1926/1929 (?).
  • A pair of obese gouty men in night-caps gaping at a fly in fear that it may land on a gouty limb. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1796, after G.M. Woodward.
  • The pump room, Bath. Line engraving by H.S. Storer, 1818, after himself.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a corner of the Gibbs courtyard with many trees and the fountain in the centre. Etching by Lillian C. Smythe.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: a group of nurses. Wood engraving by Butterworth and Heath.
  • A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by Butterworth and Heath.
  • Merlin's mechanical chair for the elderly or infirm: the design incorporates hand-cranks, wheels, gears and an adjustable back and footrest. Coloured etching with aquatint, 1811.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the gentleman's verandah. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.
  • Her Majesty Queen Victoria and entourage visiting soldiers wounded during the Boer War, in a ward at Netley Hospital. Pen and ink drawing by J. Duncan, c. 1900, after F. C. Dickinson.
  • Faustin Marneffe : grand mutilé invalide de guerre, 446, l'Hermite, Braine-l'Alleud.
  • Faustin Marneffe : grand mutilé invalide de guerre, 446, l'Hermite, Braine-l'Alleud.
  • An invalid boy in a Bath chair outside an open air sleeping-chalet. Photograph by W. Ames, ca. 1900.
  • Royal pump room and colonnade, Bath: exterior. Steel engraving by W. Wallis, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.