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  • A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.
  • A patient thanking his dentist for pulling a tooth out and asking can he go and finish reading a magazine in the waiting-room. Reproduction of a drawing after H. Batchelor, 1928.
  • A tooth-drawer is extracting a tooth from a tense seated patient, the room is scattered with objects pertaining to academia. Line engraving by A. Kesler after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.
  • Comédie-Française, Paris: a corridor used as a hospital in the Franco-Prussian War showing nurses treating patients. Photograph by Fiorillo after A. Brouillet, 1870.
  • Comédie-Française, Paris: a corridor used as a hospital in the Franco-Prussian War showing nurses treating patients. Photograph by Fiorillo after A. Brouillet, 1870.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients grouped outside the inoculation building. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating hysteria in a hypnotised patient at the Salpêtrière. Etching by A. Lurat, 1888, after P.A.A. Brouillet, 1887.
  • Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating hysteria in a hypnotised patient at the Salpêtrière. Etching by A. Lurat, 1888, after P.A.A. Brouillet, 1887.
  • Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating hysteria in a hypnotised patient at the Salpêtrière. Etching by A. Lurat, 1888, after P.A.A. Brouillet, 1887.
  • Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.
  • Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.
  • Waiting Room, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
  • Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, London
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients holding treatment cards awaiting inoculation against rabies. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Asylum for Criminal Lunatics, Broadmoor, Berkshire.
  • University College Hospital, London: the outpatients' waiting room and dispensary. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • University College Hospital, London: the outpatients' waiting room and dispensary. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley, Yorkshire: a corridor. Pencil drawing by Paul Digby, 2003-2004.
  • High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley, Yorkshire: a corridor. Pencil drawing by Paul Digby, 2003-2004.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: hospital building for patients with rabies. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Nepal; Kunde hospital in the Khumbu, 1986
  • A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784.
  • The Railwaymen's Convalescent Home, Herne Bay, Kent : opened June, 1901.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient, his concerned wife hovers in the background. Etching after G. Dou.
  • People taking a vapour bath. Coloured wood engraving by O. Sörling.