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  • Health resort, Boppard am Rhein, Marienberg, Germany. Line engraving.
  • Hornhausen, Saxony-Anhalt: people visiting the town to partake of the medicinal waters. Engraving attributed to Matthias Merian after Valentin Wagner, 1646.
  • Bad Kreuznach, Germany: thermal station. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
  • Bad Kreuznach, Germany: buildings of the thermal station. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
  • A standing woman holding a lamp, with water flowing at her feet, perhaps representing Nature healing at German spas. Colour lithograph after Jupp Wiertz.
  • Water-fountains, the Black Forest, and a red sunset, representing the health resort Wildbad im Schwarzwald (Baden-Württemberg). Colour lithograph after A. Fischinger, 192-.
  • Water-fountains, the Black Forest, and a red sunset, representing the health resort Wildbad im Schwarzwald (Baden-Württemberg). Colour lithograph after A. Fischinger, 192-.
  • Baden-Baden, Germany: waiters in a grape-cure establishment standing next to a buffet with plates of grapes. Photographic postcard, ca. 1930.
  • A temple with a fountain, representing sandbath treatment for gout and other diseases at Bad Köstritz. Colour lithograph attributed to P. Scheurich, ca. 1910.
  • A temple with a fountain, representing sandbath treatment for gout and other diseases at Bad Köstritz. Colour lithograph attributed to P. Scheurich, ca. 1910.
  • Bad Peterstal, Black Forest, Germany. Lithograph.
  • Bad Ems, Germany, with five smaller sketches of the town. Wood engraving by "EH.XA.", after 1872.
  • Baden-Baden, Germany: Gustav Stresemann sitting on the terrace of a grape-cure establishment, reading the newspapers. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Mountainous view of Sanatorium Bad Suderode in the Harz mountains, Germany. Reproduction of a drawing.
  • The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • A German physician recommending to a gouty English patient that he take the waters at various spa resorts in Germany and Bohemia. Wood engraving after R. Cleaver.
  • A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
  • Photographs of people with quotes from them about AIDS against a blue background bearing words 'krank' [sick] and 'AIDS'; an advertisement by DoRo for the German Health Ministry. Colour lithograph by kunterbunt gmbh, 1995.
  • A man with a moustache points his finger with the message: 'Ohne gummi auf den Strich, so was tut Mann lieber nicht! [Without rubber/condoms on the streets, so what do men prefer no to!]; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
  • A nurse with one finger raised and the message: 'Wer's im Urlaub ohne treibt, ist im Kopf nicht ganz gescheit' [Whoever goes on holiday unprepared is not clever in the head]; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
  • A man in a suit smiling with one finger raised, advocating use of condoms for gay men; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.