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  • Soldiers standing over a robber's death-bed. Line engraving by F.W. Topham after himself.
  • A dying man making his will to lawyers while a relative cries. Line engraving.
  • A mother cries in grief while comforting her dying daughter, who holds a rosebud with falling petals. Coloured lithograph by J. Bouvier.
  • People crowd around a dying person's bed in grief while final rites are being read. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti, 1812, after R. Westall.
  • A death-bed scene of man being read his last rites surrounded by his family, the priest and courtiers. Etching.
  • A young woman lies dying in her bed surrounded by a grieving family. Line engraving.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • A dying man in bed being read the last rites. Lithograph by F. Piloty after L. Bramer.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.
  • Isaac fooled into blessing Jacob with Rebekah present, while Esau hunts venison. Woodcut attributed to C. van Sichem the elder.
  • A young man lies dying, a woman weeps as she holds his hand, an hourglass stands on the table. Coloured lithograph by J. Bouvier.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Etching by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy after N. Poussin.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Etching by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy after N. Poussin.
  • A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1765, after N. Poussin.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • Antiochus IV of Syria, sick and injured by a fall from his chariot, dictates his will as surgeons bandage his leg. Etching by N. Hallé, 1738.
  • The death bed of Don Quixote. Line engraving by W. Blake, 178-, after T. Stothard.
  • Instructions for vaccine inoculation / [Edward Jenner].
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, oder möglichst vollständige Sammlung von abbildungen und Beschreibung chirurgischer Instrumente älterer und neuerer Leit / [Albert Wilhelm Hermann Seerig].
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, oder möglichst vollständige Sammlung von abbildungen und Beschreibung chirurgischer Instrumente älterer und neuerer Leit / [Albert Wilhelm Hermann Seerig].
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, oder möglichst vollständige Sammlung von abbildungen und Beschreibung chirurgischer Instrumente älterer und neuerer Leit / [Albert Wilhelm Hermann Seerig].
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, oder möglichst vollständige Sammlung von abbildungen und Beschreibung chirurgischer Instrumente älterer und neuerer Leit / [Albert Wilhelm Hermann Seerig].
  • A man sitting at a table examining passports, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph, 1906.
  • People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph attributed to Criouleansky & Marshall, 1906.
  • The words 'Aids is a white man's disease' in white on black; advertisement for information on how to prevent Aids by People of Colour Against Aids. Colour lithograph.
  • People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph attributed to Criouleansky & Marshall, 1906.