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  • A physician and a surgeon pointing to herbs in a herb garden; indicating medicine and surgery for the poor. Engraving, 1671.
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • Queen Adelaide's Dispensary, Bethnal Green. Wood engraving by O. Jewitt after himself [1865].
  • A man tending an HIV infected man in bed with a message to care and support those with HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • An Indian man reaches out to touch his young bride who wears a red sari that covers her face; a woman raising her arms in terror as flames envelop her and all her belongings, a man setting off to earn his fortune abroad with a blue sack over his shoulder and a woman (his wife?) staying at home stirring a pot; an AIDS prevention advertisement within a decorative border by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • Section of the dorsal (?) rib cage showing multiply fractured ribs. Watercolour in grisaille by S. A. Sewell, ca. 1918.
  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.
  • A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
  • Red apples representing healty living with a message about how AIDS patients can learn to live with the disease with the help of the assistance of the Diocesan Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Cologne eV AIDS-Hilfe Unit. Colour lithograph by Hüsch & Hüsch Aachen and Werbung.
  • Veronicastrum virginicum 'Pink Glow'
  • Veronicastrum virginicum 'Pink Glow'
  • A doctor examining a disgruntled patient, John Bull, who is being reassured by his master. Lithograph by Crichton, 1834.
  • Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992
  • Two yellow lines encircled by a grey/green line at the centre of a poster with details of the Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992 at the Seminar Centrum, Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, an initiative of Sergei Bashir and Manfred D. Kuno. Colour lithograph by ComDesign.
  • Two yellow lines encircled by a grey/green line at the centre of a poster with details of the Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992 at the Seminar Centrum, Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, an initiative of Sergei Bashir and Manfred D. Kuno. Colour lithograph by ComDesign.
  • A large gathering of patients and assistants to Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy, showing use of the special tub at his clinic. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat.
  • A large gathering of patients and assistants to Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy, showing use of the special tub at his clinic. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.