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  • A dancing, juggling man who brings relief to sick people. Engraving.
  • A sick patient surrounded by family and visited by a priest. Stipple engraving by Middlemist after T. Stothard.
  • A rescued child is reunited with his family by a Newfoundland dog. Coloured mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1803, after J. Eckstein.
  • Two women comforting a boy while a monk sits beside in despair. Wood engraving after Jessie MacGregor, 1872.
  • A dying little girl is held by her mother in bed, while another child consoles the grieving father. Transfer lithograph.
  • An old woman dying with her hand held by her daughter; two men, with impaired limbs, pay their last respects. Colour stipple print by E. & M.A. Scott after T. Stothard.
  • A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine. Watercolour by R.H. Giles.
  • A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine. Watercolour by R.H. Giles.
  • A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.
  • A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.
  • A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
  • The good Samaritan helping a stranger who has been ignored by a priest and Levite. Line engraving by S. Smith after C.L. Eastlake.
  • A hospital ward showing sick patients being tended to by medical staff, after a quote from the Bible (Matt. 25.36). Line engraving by C. Galle.
  • The good Samaritan takes care of an injured man in an inn. Wood engraving after P.R. Morris, 1858.
  • A young doctor (homeopath?) visiting a patient and comforting his worried wife. Coloured photolithograph.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Heal the sick. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Heal the sick. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Mezzotint by S. De Wilde after J.J. Flipart after J.B. Greuze.
  • Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.
  • A weeping Pero, breast-feeding Cimon, her starving imprisoned father. Line engraving by J. Danzel after N.N. Coypel.
  • Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Saint Camillus de Lellis rescuing lives and offering shelter from the flooding Tiber, Rome. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.
  • Patients being tended and treated by nurses and physicians on a hospital ward. Line engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • A wife dutifully sits by the bedside of her sick husband, watching over him. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1837, after E. Prentis.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.