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  • A working class patient misunderstanding his doctor's diagnosis of acne as the illness being caused by his having been to Hackney. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • Ten people with leprosy (with warning clappers) approach Christ the healer. Etching.
  • A chemist gives a demonstration involving arsenic to an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.
  • A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
  • An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.
  • Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.
  • A man and a woman lying in swimsuits within a condom packet within a swimming pool representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé, Division de la Médicine Préventive. Colour lithograph.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • M0008071: Map of Britain in 626 A.D.
  • Page 83: wrestlers. Watercolour drawing.
  • A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
  • A woman holding a pitcher. Watercolour.
  • A woman pulling giant aubergines from a tree. Watercolour.
  • A man with influenza, taken in hand by a doctor, surrounded by dancing politicians. Wood engraving by Pépin (E. Guillaumin), 1889.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • The groin area of a naked man and woman blocked by the message 'Weiterso' with growing condoms reflecting the increasing statistics of those in the 17 to 30 age group using condoms with each new sexual partner; one of a series of posters from a 'Stop AIDS' prevention campaign by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz in collaboration with the Office of Federal Health. Colour lithograph, 1992 [?].
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.