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  • Alfredo Antunes Kanthack with staff and students in the pathological laboratory of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Photograph, ca. 1896.
  • A gouty patient having his pulse taken by a doctor; representing George IV's opposition to Catholic emancipation, and Wellington's support of it. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1829.
  • Patrick Manson experimenting with filaria sanguinis-hominis in Amoy (Xiamen), China. Oil painting by E. Board, ca. 1912.
  • Lettering urging the use of the handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph.
  • Woman with pails going to collect water in rural area, Zambia
  • Anti-AIDS advert by Infoshare International
  • A naked woman and a suited man reach towards a condom packet as a man dressed in a long black cloak and hat holding a cat looms up behind with the moon beyond; a safe sex and anti-AIDS advertisement by Infoshare International. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • The female sign incorporating the faces of five women who work in the AIDS field with a list of list of HIV-related conditions common in women by the Maricopa Area Health Education Center. Colour lithograph by Jeff Dorgay and Creative Syndicate.
  • Sick looking men, women and children with the question what does a person with AIDS look like; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The pain of it all, emotional cancer journey, artwork
  • Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • C15 Chinese medical primer: Correlations of the pulses
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.