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  • An old man with a beard in a walking frame with an hourglass; representing lifelong learning. Engraving by A. Salamanca, 1538.
  • Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
  • Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
  • World War I: a convalescent soldier in a walking frame is running at speed while smoking a cigarette, endangering an older man and woman. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • Barber's Barn, Hackney, a timber-framed building with decorative plasterwork, two ladies walking in the garden, a gardener at work. Engraving by Lacy, 1811, after T. Fisher.
  • Engraving of walking-stool,18thC
  • E. Rosslin, Hebammenbuchlin. Von der Mensch
  • Walking stool or 'go-cart'. Probably 18th century.
  • Female physiotherapist with elderly female patient
  • Female physiotherapist with elderly female patient
  • R.W.Lovett, Treatment of Infantile Paralysis
  • Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires / dessin de Lévy-Dhurmer.
  • Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires / dessin de Lévy-Dhurmer.
  • Hunting: engraved titlepage to Ridinger's "Abbildung der jagtbaren Thiere". Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Hunting: engraved titlepage to Ridinger's "Abbildung der jagtbaren Thiere". Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • An evil demon (dMu) who causes dropsy. Watercolour by a Tibetan painter.
  • A surgeon at Whitworth in County Durham letting blood from Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, but leaving his patient in order to attend to a sick horse. Coloured etching by H.W., 1791.
  • Chukchi people and housing encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpiniere, 1784, after J. Webber.