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  • A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.
  • Crimean War: drying closet as used by Scutari Hospital. Wood engraving.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) washes clothes and passes the washed clothes to the Christ Child who gives them to Saint Joseph to hang on a tree to dry, with the assistance of angels. Engraving by J. Couché, 1791, after A. Borel after F. Albani.
  • Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • The circumcision of the Shechemites. Engraving by J. Muller (?).
  • An opium den in London's East End with a reclining smoker being watched by a group of men. Wood engraving by A. Doms, 1872, after G. Doré.