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  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • A black child in a stripy top and braces who has AIDS; an advertisement for The Aids Health Project. Lithograph.
  • A woman holds a black child wearing a stripy top and braces who has AIDS; an advertisement for The Aids Health Project. Lithograph.
  • A woman holds a black child in a stripy top and braces who has AIDS; an advertisement in spanish for The Aids Health Project. Lithograph.
  • Brace and bit type trepan; steel with wood handle.
  • A diagram of a head illustrating a jaw and chin brace. Stipple print by J. Bell.
  • A woman walking wearing a back brace with a spinal indicator. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman walking wearing a back brace with a spinal indicator. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with injuries to the mouth and chin, wearing a metal brace inside his mouth: before plastic surgery. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a wound to the mouth and chin, wearing a metal brace in his mouth, before plastic surgery: in profile. Photograph, 1916.
  • Game and hunting, six separate images: two pheasants; a hare; two rabbits; four grouse (?); a snipe (?); two dogs guard a brace of dead game hanging from the branch of a tree. Etching after E.H. Landseer, 1820/1848.
  • A man wearing a codpiece and a belted body brace with the message in Swedish 'Dare you jump without a parachute? Do you love without a condom?'; an AIDS and STD prevention and safe sex advertisement by Landstinget Förebygger AIDS (LAFA). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A forlorn-looking boy wearing dungarees stands with a ball under one arm and with one brace undone; with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. With HIV (positive) children do not play'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.
  • Purple and red parallel zigzag shapes with cross-bracing. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea / by Bronislaw Malinowski ; complete in one volume ; with a preface by Havelock Ellis.
  • The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea / by Bronislaw Malinowski ; complete in one volume ; with a preface by Havelock Ellis.
  • All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belt : for suffering men & women : for nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, rheumatism, indigestion, sleeplessness, ladies ailments &c. it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.
  • The Daily Mirror beauty book / by an eminent M.D.
  • All who suffer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, torpid liver, indigestion ... or any form of disease or weakness should avoid poisonous drugs, quack medicines ... and try the marvellous curative efficacity of Mr. C.B. Harness' world-famed bona-fide "Electropathic" belt / the Electropathic & Zander Institute.
  • All who suffer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, torpid liver, indigestion ... or any form of disease or weakness should avoid poisonous drugs, quack medicines ... and try the marvellous curative efficacity of Mr. C.B. Harness' world-famed bona-fide "Electropathic" belt / the Electropathic & Zander Institute.
  • A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited.
  • Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines & drugs & simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's cool feather-weight electric body belt ... / Dr. Carter Moffat.
  • Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines & drugs & simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's cool feather-weight electric body belt ... / Dr. Carter Moffat.
  • Safer sex every time / Scottish AIDS Monitor ; photography by Alasdair Foster.
  • Safer sex every time / Scottish AIDS Monitor ; photography by Alasdair Foster.
  • A woman doctor is taking the pulse of a male patient seated in an armchair. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.
  • Poliomyelitis: advertisement for vaccination of children against polio with Sabin vaccine. Colour lithograph, ca. 1964.