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  • Smallpox: its consequences (death, disfigurement, blindness) and prevention through vaccination. Colour lithograph by Kogyi, 1951.
  • A woman's face disfigured by the crisscrossed letters "AIDS/HIV". Colour lithograph after W. Świerzy, 1993.
  • Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • Uganda: a Lango woman with a disfigured nose, diseased skin and a bandaged hand, possibly suffering from leprosy or yaws. Photograph by Cecil John Hackett, ca. 1937.
  • A photo of a boy wearing a v-necked jumper with one arm leaning on an orange and green-flowered table cloth; his eyes and mouth have been annotated with disfiguring pen marks that are scratched across the surface of the image within a dotted border; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by América Sanchez, ca. 1994.
  • Climbing after frostbite
  • Climbing after frostbite
  • A maid shows an old man his smallpocked face in a hand mirror. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
  • Effects of tertiary syphilis of the tongue
  • Indented tongue
  • A profile of a man interpreted by Lavater to be indolent, idle, and a drunkard. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A woman shielding her face with her hand from a razor dripping with blood: female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • An anti-AIDS poster produced by Artis
  • Right hand of a woman suffering from chronic gout
  • Left hand of a woman suffering from chronic gout
  • Lady Mary Dudley. Stipple engraving by E. Harding, 1799.
  • A white chart containing Arabic text about female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • A woman (Leang Yen?) with a large tumour on her right hand, reclining and concealing her face. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838.
  • Young women in the Ukraine teasing a boy who is pockmarked and blinded in one eye by smallpox. Colour lithograph by Sudimora, ca. 1929.
  • Young women in the Ukraine teasing a boy who is pockmarked and blinded in one eye by smallpox. Colour lithograph by Sudimora, ca. 1929.
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man's head after garrotting exposed in a wooden cage hanging from a pole; his four children standing in front of it. Wood engraving, 1857.