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  • WORLD WAR II: Casualty evacuation by jeep
  • Pneumatics: a heavy weight suspended from an evacuated sphere. Engraving.
  • Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French. Of J.A. Salgues.
  • World War I: German & British wounded waiting to be evacuated
  • The efficacy and extent of true purgation : shewing, I. what this operation is; not as vulgarly understood. II. how performed in human body. III. by what means fitly to be done. IV. when; how oft; and in what cases to be used ... distinguished from promiscuous evacuations; iujuriously [sic] procured, and falsly reputed purging / by Everard Maynwaring.
  • A French soldier boasts that he and six others have 'evacuated' 300 Mexicans from a square;a military surgeon, holding an enema, counters that he has 'evacuated' many more single-handed. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard).
  • World War I: evacuating the wounded on the Menin road, 1917. Watercolour by David A. Baxter.
  • World War I: evacuating the wounded on the Menin road, 1917. Watercolour by David A. Baxter.
  • World War I: evacuating the wounded on the Menin road, 1917. Watercolour by David A. Baxter.
  • Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated [?] glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
  • Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae. Safe Flower, False Saffron - Distribution: W. Asia. Dioscorides (in Beck, 2003) notes the seeds as a purgative, but also advises it made up with 30 figs, which must have helped. Gerard (1640) calls it Atractylis flore luteo the yellow distaffe thistle. and follows Dioscorides in its uses, but does get the reader confused with Cnicus benedictus, calling both plants 'wild bastard saffron'. Culpeper makes no mention of it in his early works, but later (1826) have the following: ‘Wild Saffon, or Saf-flower ... accounted a pretty strong cathartic [causing diarrhoea and vomiting], evacuating tough viscid phlegm, both upwards and downwards, and by that means is said to clear the lungs, and help the phthisic [now equated with tuberculosis]. It is likewise serviceable against the jaundice
  • People deserting their homes, in Manchuria, as a result of being invaded by the Japanese and the arrival of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Hav soya flour / G. Havinden Ltd.
  • Hav soya flour / G. Havinden Ltd.
  • Wooden rollers for massaging the abdomen
  • Liebig's combination tube and drying apparatus. 19th C
  • WORLD WAR II: Casualty Evaucation by jeep
  • World War I Military Surgery, 1917
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • Abyssinian girls carrying water to a camp. Wood engraving by P.F. Durand.
  • Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers; representing the sickly state of the French economy in the 1830s. Coloured etching, c. 1832.
  • General Georges Mouton sits perched on an enormous clyster; representing his use of a prototype water-cannon in quelling an uprising. Lithograph after A. Desperret after Charles Philipon, c. 1831.
  • A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.
  • World War One: Pushvillers, France: wounded soldiers on a trolley being taken from the Casualty Clearing Station to an ambulance train. Photograph, 1916.
  • World War One: moving wounded men on a trolley on rails at Puchevillers, France. Photograph, 1916.
  • Sarcoma of the right conjunctiva
  • General Gordon standing on the stairs of his house about to be speared by dervishes. Etching by H. Dicksee after G. W. Joy.
  • The suicide of Cato. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is taken from the battle after being wounded in the thigh (key to the painting). Engraving, 1804, after R. Ker Porter.
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Engraving by F. Legat, 1805, after T. Stothard.