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  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].
  • A physician examining a gypsy child with a stethoscope outside a tent on the side of the road. Halftone by Swain after W. Small, 1898.
  • Members of the British National Hospital Service Reserve attending to someone who has been injured; advertising recuitment to the National Hospital Service Reserve. Colour lithograph, 1951 (?).
  • Safe-sex advertisement during the Brazilian Carnival
  • A washing line bearing two inflated condoms and a red and yellow flag representing a safe-sex advertisement during the Brazilian Carnival by Gapa/BS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A modern block of flats contrasted with a row of unhealthy terrace houses. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 180-, after R. Pollard.
  • Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Kowloon, Hong Kong, China: a Chinese family. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Kowloon, Hong Kong, China: a Chinese family. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Papaver somniferum seed
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.