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  • Angels blow trumpets in heaven and fire descends on a river. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.
  • Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
  • [Leaflet describing the work of the British Red Cross Society asking for donations and volunteers].
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • Leeches. Histoires Prodigieuses, Pierrie Boaistuau
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • 'Medicine' for smallpox in courtyard of house in Abong
  • Methods of irrigation practised in India: use of bullocks to raise water from a well. Wood engraving by A.H., 1874.
  • A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).
  • A young woman's wig and hat being swept away by a gust of wind; behind her a young man is laughing, to the left stand an amused couple. Engraving by J. Caldwell, 1771, after J. Collet.
  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • A man dressed in a hat and heavy coat is carrying a fishing rod as he nears a turbulent river on a very windy day. Process print after John Leech.
  • A woman seated at a table, and underneath a parrot in a cage suspended from the ceiling, unaware that her wig has been set alight by a mischievous monkey; another woman screams in horror as she enters through a door, in the right foreground a cat shields her kittens from a barking dog. Etching.
  • A Ugandan soldier of the National Resistance Army dressed in combat uniform holding a rifle; a thought-bubble containing a semi-naked woman appears to his left and a condom below, warning about the importance of safe-sex to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Public Health, NRA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man and woman standing beneath an umbrella protecting them from rain pouring down from the word 'AIDS; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda with the assistance of USAID. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda
  • A man sitting on the edge of a bed beside a woman who is holding up packets of condoms; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph by Tahley (?), ca. 1995.
  • Abdominal aortic aneurysm