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  • A sore throat and cough stopped by a traffic "Stop" sign" representing the medicine Kresival. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).
  • A red and a purple figure intertwined and holding each other by the throat. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A red and a purple figure intertwined and holding each other by the throat. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An ill man taking a gargling mixture for a sore throat. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M. Egerton, 1827.
  • A young woman, winner of a beauty contest, wearing a large black hat with a trailing scarf round her throat.
  • Ayer's cherry pectoral cures colds, coughs & all diseases of the throat and lungs / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • (Left) Representing Gonnorrheal Ophthalmia & eruptions on the face. (Right) Representing Veneral eruptions & ulcerations on the face & throat
  • Bronchial Cough Electuary for horses : specially prepared for all kinds of coughs, also for sore throat, &c.... /Alfred Parker.
  • Muscles of the jaw, throat, bladder and anus: 51 figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after B.S. Albinus, 1777.
  • Several examples of diseased eyes, throat (larynx) and face, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • Ayer's cherry pectoral cures colds, coughs and all diseases of the throat and lungs / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Ayer's cherry pectoral cures colds, coughs and all diseases of the throat and lungs / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Muscles of the tongue, mouth and throat, with interconnections to the nose: three figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after G. Bidloo, 1798.
  • A seated Chinese visitor threatens to cut his own throat in front of his host. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • In Ireland, sore throats used to be treated by applying salt herrings to the feet ... but today ... : the choice is Strepsils antiseptic lozenges for mouth and throat infections / Boots Pure Drug Company Limited.
  • A wolf is sitting in the grass while a crane extracts a bone from its throat. Etching by W.S. Howitt for a fable by Aesop.
  • A wolf is sitting on the shore of a lake while a crane extracts a bone from its throat; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city and the parts adjacent ... / [John Fothergill].
  • An otter, tracked down by dogs in a forest ravine, is held down by one dog about to bite it in the throat. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • The larynx, trachea, thyroid gland and related parts of the throat: six figures and six lesser figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after W. Cowper and G. Bidloo, 1798.
  • A doctor examining a little boy for throat problems, he enquires whether the child snores, the child retorts that his mother does. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1894.
  • Fowke & Aston's white oils are most approved in cases of stiffness, swelling, strains, inflammation of the lungs or throat &c. / prepared only by Fowke & Aston, chemists, Stafford.
  • An apothecary in his shop examines the throat of a young female singer, an apprentice takes notes and other patients wait their turn. Line engraving by F. Bartolozzi after P. Longhi.
  • The modern medicament for relieving nasal catarrh, congestion, colds, hay fever, influenza, asthma, quinsy, bronchitis, sore throat or chest, headache, neuralgia, sprains, neuritis & rheumatic pains : Mentex / Foster McClellan Laboratories.
  • A fight between two sailors with one of them lying on the ground held by the throat by his angry opponent while policemen make a forceful entry through the door. Wood engraving.
  • The modern medicament for relieving nasal catarrh, congestion, colds, hay fever, influenza, asthma, quinsy, bronchitis, sore throat or chest, headache, neuralgia, sprains, neuritis & rheumatic pains : Mentex / Foster McClellan Laboratories.
  • The modern medicament for relieving nasal catarrh, congestion, colds, hay fever, influenza, asthma, quinsy, bronchitis, sore throat or chest, headache, neuralgia, sprains, neuritis & rheumatic pains : Mentex / Foster McClellan Laboratories.
  • Helio throat treatment, Cresson Sanatorium, Pennsylvania: a nurse is shown watching two tuberculosis patients holding out their tongues, while sunlight is reflected into their mouths by means of small mirrors (?). Photograph, 1920/1940?.
  • Paolo de Bernardis da Uderzo is attacked by a man who stabs his throat with a dagger: he recovers through the intercession of Saint Philip Neri. Engraving by C. Sas after J. Stella.
  • The head of a dead man with the mouth open showing interior, with details of tonsil and other parts of mouth and throat. Line engraving by A. Bell after G. Bidloo and W. Cowper, 1798.