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  • Japanese funeral customs: watched by two mourners, an attendant prepares to place the urn containing the ashes in the opened grave. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Chinese farmers irrigating land. Halftone after Maynard Owen Williams.
  • Lactart acid of milk makes a delicious beverage : with water and sugar only / Avery Lactate Co.
  • Lactart acid of milk makes a delicious beverage : with water and sugar only / Avery Lactate Co.
  • Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Dr Sangrado taking the pulse of a sick clergyman. Engraving by Thurston, 1802, after C. Warren after A. Le Sage.
  • A boy blowing bubbles. Engraving by M. Blot, 1792, after F. van Mieris.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi on his deathbed, three Franciscans praying next to him, an angel playing the violin on a cloud. Etching by G. Audran after Annibale Carraci, 16--.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving by E. Ficquet after M. Q. de La Tour.