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  • The four elements, four qualities, four humours, four seasons, and four ages of man. Airbrush by Lois Hague, 1991.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • A man removing a plaster; representing the sense of touch. Oil painting by Lucas Franchoys II.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Orphans.
  • Orphans.
  • A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.
  • The doctor.
  • Patients waiting to see the doctor, with figures representing their fears. Oil painting by Rosemary Carson, 1997.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • A tree. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • The doctor.
  • Patients waiting to see the doctor, with figures representing their fears. Oil painting by Rosemary Carson, 1997.
  • Orphans.
  • Orphans.
  • Death and the miser. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • A skeleton as a woman wearing a brown and red dress and a black headdress. Oil painting, ca. 1680.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • An allegory. Oil painting by a follower of Joris Hoefnagel.
  • Orphans.
  • The doctor.
  • The doctor.
  • The doctor.
  • The doctor.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Orphans.
  • The doctor.
  • The mirror of sinners, the sword of vengeance of sin. Oil painting by a Spanish painter after G. Olgiati.
  • The doctor.