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  • A forearm with three open wounds. Coloured stipple etching after J. Bell, c. 1815 (?).
  • A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.
  • A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.
  • A splint for a broken limb. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Diagrams illustrating how to bandage and set fractures in splints. Engraving by J. Johnstone.
  • Field medical card / [War Office].
  • Field medical card / [War Office].
  • A soldier having an arm amputated. Lithograph by Villain.
  • Achilles bandaging the wounded arm of Patroclus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936, after an Attic cup by Sosias, c. 500 B.C.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling a medicine to a man whose son has a poorly arm. Engraving by P. da Colle after N. Cavalli after F. Maggiotto.
  • An episode in 'Rookwood', a novel by W. Harrison Ainsworth: Luke Bradley, who is threatening Eleanor Mowbray with a dagger, is himself threatened by Ranulph Rookwood with a sword, but Ranulph is suddenly restrained by Dick Turpin. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after J. Cawse, 1837.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.