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  • An old man walks with the aid of a stick and a visor to protect his eyes, printed text providing advice on eye illness and remedies. Coloured line engraving by Rainaud after F.A. Laguillermle.
  • Five hands signing against a decorative background with a message for deaf people to open their eyes to AIDS; advertisement by the AIDS Education/Services for the Deaf. Colour lithograph.
  • A mother sits on a chair looking glum, with one daughter sitting on a stool, another talking to her and yet another sitting at the table wiping her eyes. Chromolithograph.
  • A snake, dark brown in colour with yellow markings on either side of the eyes: two figures, showing the head, and the lower part of the body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • The head of a young man with closed eyes, representing mourning for AIDS victims to be marked by a procession in Berlin on the eve of World AIDS day. Lithograph, 199-.
  • Shaman's charm of bone carved in Totemic British Columbia. North West Coast of America. Designs representing the Octopus and anthropoozomorphic bird. Abalone inlays in eyes. Hole pierced at top for pendant.
  • Two paperclips twisted around to form 'damning eyes' representing a warning about discrimination against workmates with AIDS by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A personified red heart with eyes is split in two on impact with the word 'AIDS' below; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation Inc. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by A CHILD with two faces, four eyes, two mouths, two noses, two ears, and two chins born on 23 December 1827 on display at 107 Regent Street, London].
  • A woman wearing a lace collar with her eyes obscured by a black line with the message in Swedish 'You don't have to be gay to have AIDS'. Lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man and woman with a death cross marked 'AIDS' obscuring their eyes; an advertisement by the Republican Centre for AIDS Prevention in Belarus. Colour lithograph by Zhuk V.I., ca. 1995.
  • World War One: men with wounds to the eyes walking in a single line, each man placing his left hand on the left shoulder of the man in front for assistance. Captioned 'Nightfall.'
  • C.S. Parnell and John Walter, dressed as ancient Greek warriors, are engaged in single combat under the eyes of two judges and a barrister. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 27 October 1888.
  • Two men and a woman sit cross legged, one covers his eyes, the woman her mouth, the other man his ears representing a warning about not being informed about AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Father Time, seated on the globe, averts his eyes from the venal scenes depicted in the money-bags around him, involving the fraudulent financier Augustus Melmotte. Wood engraving by H. Linton after F. Barnard.
  • Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire: a young man with long moustaches, prisoner number 13821, his eyes are closed and he is held in a restraint-chair by his wrists and neck; head and shoulders. Photograph, c. 1869.
  • A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: blood is seen ematating from the woman's eyes and mouth and her torturer is shown standing besided her. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire: a young man with long moustaches, prisoner number 13821, his eyes are closed and he is held in a restraint-chair by his wrists and neck; head and shoulders. Photograph, c. 1869.
  • A man with three eyes is fitted with spectacles, watched by a man and woman with fantastically elongated necks, both smoking pipes; a Buddhist monk (?) playing a shamisen looks away. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
  • A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.
  • The eyes of a woman with a block of text about AIDS and the question: "Have you taken risks? ..."; a safe sex advertisement for the SIDA Info Service by the CFES (Comité Français d'Education pour la Santé). Colour lithograph.
  • Smilacina racemosa Desf. syn. Maianthemum racemosum (L.)Link Convallariaceae. False Spikenard, False Solomon's Seal, Scurvy berries, Treacle berries. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) reports on Native American traditional usage: Cold infusion of the roots for sore eyes (Cherokee)
  • Two tape measures with the rule pulled out and back to create the effect of 'damning eyes'; a warning about discrimination against workmates with AIDS by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Eyes cannot be replaced / issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ; [designed by G.R. Morris].
  • Eyes for the blind. Man-midwifery exposed! Or, What it is and what it ought to be with broad hints to new married people, and young men and women / [M Adams].