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  • Votive picture: three people pray to the Virgin and Child for a patient in bed, a woman mops the patient's brow and a surgeon lets blood from the foot. Oil painting.
  • Votive picture: three people pray to the Virgin and Child for a patient in bed, a woman mops the patient's brow and a surgeon lets blood from the foot. Oil painting.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Vignettes of daily life, forming decorated letters spelling the name of William Davies. Painting attributed to Stephen Jenner, December 1817.
  • Vignettes of daily life, forming decorated letters spelling the name of William Davies. Painting attributed to Stephen Jenner, December 1817.
  • A cock, representing Theodorus de Cock (Theodorus de Kock). Engraving attributed to Carel Allard, 1705.
  • An old man sits by a fire in a crofter's cottage, about to tell his story to the family that lives there. Engraving by J. Hooper after H. Thomson.
  • Vignettes of daily life, forming decorated letters spelling the name of William Davies. Painting attributed to Stephen Jenner, December 1817.
  • An American serviceman clutching the letters "VD" like prison-bars from which he yearns to be released. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
  • A man trapped in the letters VD (venereal disease), representing untreated sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 195- (?).
  • A camel forming the first sura of the Koran. Woodcut by Muhammad Ibrahim.
  • A workman lifting a metal bar and placing strain on his body. Colour lithograph.
  • An American soldier running to escape a thunderbolt in the form of the letters VD, representing venereal disease. Colour lithograph by F.O. Schiffers, 1946.
  • The question "What is AIDS?" in sixteen languages spoken in Berlin; representing health advice services for HIV-positive migrants. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The word "AIDS" repeated many times in the style of the painting "Love" by Robert Indiana. Colour lithograph by General Idea, ca. 1987.
  • Ventilation of soldiers' quarters. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • The Duke of Wellington, portrayed in words. Lithograph.
  • The Duke of Wellington, portrayed in words. Lithograph.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Engraving after M. Buchinger, 1724.
  • A silk handkerchief printed with a description of an erotic encounter with the words in the form of breasts. Mixed media, 1802, after E. Parny.
  • Genealogical table of the Franconian line of the Hohenzollern arranged in circular writing in the shape of the Prussian royal crown surrounding the complete set of coats of arms of the line. Engraving by M. Buchinger.
  • King George III sits in his library pondering which advice to accept: to govern by law or by force. Engraving, 1771.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a young woman, while an old maid prepares gruel for her. Oil painting by Quirin Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • Jean Misaubin and his family. Gouache painting by Joseph Goupy, 172-.
  • Jean Misaubin and his family. Gouache painting by Joseph Goupy, 172-.
  • Five keys to safer food in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Pulp Pictures for World Health Organisation, ca. 2000.