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  • Papworth. The Bernhard Baron Hospital for Men and one wing of the South Park Hostel for Rehabilitation where trainee-patients are accomodated in single private rooms.
  • Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: the out-patient waiting room. Photograph, 1912.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a surgical treatment room in the out-patients' department. Photograph, 1921.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: patients waiting in the waiting room. Photograph by Marshall, Keene & Co.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: a room for two patients, probably in the new wing (1936). Photograph.
  • A gouty patient in his room full of unproductive doctors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • The Royal Hospital, Haslar, England: the massage room: a nurse massages a patient's arm. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Dax, France: a male patient in the shower room of a thermal establishment. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: a room for a single patient, probably in the new wing (1936). Photograph.
  • Dax, France: a female patient in the shower room of a thermal establishment. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
  • A doctor and nurses playing cards in a room with a sick patient. Process print after L.T. Lackernay.
  • A surgeon about to let blood from a woman patient in a richly furnished room. Engraving by A. Bosse.
  • A patient entering a computerized tomography scanner, seen from the control room. Etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.
  • Operating room staff wheeling a patient back into a ward after an operation. Oil painting by Ethel Macmillan, ca. 1940.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • The recovery room, in which patients recover from a surgical operation. Soft-ground etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.
  • An operator making an incision behind the ear of a seated patient, two assistants restraining the patient, and six other people in the room. Oil painting attributed to Joachim van den Heuvel, 163-.
  • Franco-Prussian War: a family keeping vigil around a patient's bed while other soldiers convalesce in another room. Etching by A. Lançon, 1871.
  • Three doctors in close discussion, their patient being nursed in the next room. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Winter, 1869, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Waiting room in a dispensary for the treatment of tuberculosis, Cuba: a nurse stands beside the reception table, surrounded by seated patients. Photograph, 1902.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is strapped to a chair in a dilapidated room, his worried wife looks on. Etching.
  • An anatomical dissection by Reinier de Graaf, taking place in a room with a patient in bed. Reproduction, 1927, of an engraving by G. Wingendorp, 1671.
  • A doctor holding a sharp surgical instrument in which to operate on a cross-eyed yokel, in a room with other patients. Etching by "Sly Dick".
  • A doctor holding a sharp surgical instrument in which to operate on a cross-eyed yokel, in a room with other patients. Etching by "Sly Dick".
  • A vexed doctor is leaving his patient's room because the latter has not been following his advice and has been eating rich food. Reproduction of woodcut, 19--.
  • Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.
  • Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.