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  • Victim of leprosy.
  • Victim of elephantiasis. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • Victim of elephantiasis. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • "A victim to the chloroform habit"
  • A torture victim; and divination techniques. Engraving.
  • Examination of a plague victim at Manderlay, 1906
  • A victim of the plague in Paris. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A farmer fallen victim to the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The word "plague" hovers above a victim's face. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A deformed victim of drug addiction and AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1994.
  • A funeral in India(?) of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A dead victim of cholera at Sunderland in 1832. Coloured lithograph attributed to J.W. Gear.
  • A dead victim of cholera at Sunderland in 1832. Coloured lithograph attributed to J.W. Gear.
  • A victim of torture is flayed or disembowelled by two men in a cave. Wood engraving.
  • A torture chamber where one victim is tied up and suspended from a pulley while being interrogated by two scribes, while another victim is suspended from the ceiling and lowered onto a spike with his rectum. Etching by L.M. after V.V.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.
  • Another victim of the oil menace / issued by the Co-ordinating Committee on Oil Pollution of the Sea.
  • Another victim of the oil menace / issued by the Co-ordinating Committee on Oil Pollution of the Sea.
  • 8th Xhosa War: the funeral of a British war victim under torchlight on the field. Lithograph, ca. 1852.
  • An American soldier lying wounded; analogous to the sufferings of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A cholera victim with a typical facial appearance. Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?), after Robert Froriep, ca. 1831.
  • A cholera victim with a typical facial appearance. Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?), after Robert Froriep, ca. 1831.
  • A cholera victim with a typical facial appearance. Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?), after Robert Froriep, ca. 1831.
  • A cholera victim with a typical facial appearance. Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?), after Robert Froriep, ca. 1831.
  • Various methods of torture: one victim is tied to the stake and has pieces of flesh torn out of its side with pliers, while another is tied to the rack and has hot fluids poured on him, while yet another victim has to walk over nails. Woodcut.
  • Two uniformed German soldiers carrying in a battle victim to a military doctor who waits in a barn. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • A victim of torture is about to have its hand plunged into an open flame while a priest is looking on. Woodcut.
  • A man seated holding a child plague victim, a woman is holding back another man. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A rat caught in a trap; victim to man's efforts to stem the spread of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.