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  • A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A surgeon performing a paracentesis on an obese man, whose swollen abdomen has a cannula inserted into it, and is subsequently releasing fluid into a basin. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1672.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a man's arm, he is aided by an older surgeon and an assistant, a woman (the patient's wife ?) is present. Engraving, 1586.
  • An innkeeper's wife and daughter taking care of Don Quixote's wounds and injuries after being beaten. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
  • Medical staff standing round a woman patient in bed in a hospital ward. Photograph by Seeberger Frères, ca. 1910.
  • A physician examining a child, who is being comforted by a nurse in the ward of a childrens' hospital. Photogravure by J.Löwy, 1901, after I. Knopp, 1892.
  • An older woman tending to a sick young woman. Watercolour by R.T. Pritchett.
  • William of Orange on his sickbed in Rotterdam in August 1574. Line engraving by T. Koning, 1782, after J. Buys.
  • A physician examining a child, who is being comforted by a nurse in the ward of a childrens' hospital. Photogravure by J.Löwy, 1901, after I. Knopp, 1892.
  • A surgeon bleeding the arm of a young woman: she is being comforted by another woman. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson (?), 1784.
  • A surgeon bleeding a man's head, he is aided by two assistants, a woman (the patient's wife ?) appears anxious. Engraving, 1586.
  • A sick man (Valentine) in bed with his hand held by his sister Camilla: the landlady demands the rent as David Simple enters the room. Line engraving by W. Blake, 1782, after T. Stothard.
  • God's protection in various forms of distress: the angel of the Lord guides Moses and Aaaron who lead the people on a journey; good weather after a thunderstorm; a man prays for a doctor to be called to a sick bed. Etching.
  • A surgeon bleeding a man's arm, he is observed by an older surgeon and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • A young woman takes the hand of a sick man, while an older woman listens. Line engraving by C. Grignion after P. Sandby.
  • A surgeon bleeding a woman patient's arm, he is assisted by two attendants. Engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • Three sick soldiers sharing a bed while another watches over them. Pen and ink drawing by Clarus.
  • A group of women gather around a fainted woman, while a concerned man looks on, with an ornate border. Line engraving by W. Angus, 1782, after T. Stothard.
  • A surgeon bandaging an elderly man's knee in a street surrounded by a group of onlookers. Colour process print after R. Caldecott.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
  • Three scenes relating to hydrotherapy and one concerning the production of silk. Pen drawing by J. Gülick.
  • A contagiously ill man asks for the bed-pan; the nurse tells him that it will cost ten sous for the risk. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Crimean War: women nurses tending wounded soldiers as "woman's mission". Coloured lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1854, after H. Barraud.
  • Patients being tended and treated by nurses and physicians on a hospital ward. Line engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a man's tongue, he is aided by two assistants. Engraving, 1586.