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  • Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.
  • A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches and a disease of the lung) all inter-related (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Aquatint after J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A confrontation between two figures, representing industrial diseases being challenged by health gained from use of Morris Evans' remedies. Colour lithograph incorporating a design by W. Mitford Davies.
  • Saint Valentine blessing an epileptic. Coloured etching.
  • Sanatorio Mussolini, Rome; bird's eye view. Process print.
  • Victim of elephantiasis. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • Saint Valentine blessing an epileptic. Coloured etching.
  • A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of 'oily' rheumatism on his scalp. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.
  • Diseases treated by Yaya Konate. Watercolour painting, ca. 2010.
  • World War One: British prisoners of war at Ruhleben camp being examined for "barbed-wire disease" by a German army officer. Coloured pen and ink drawing by R. Walker, 1917.
  • The side of a building with the question "One day, when all diseases will be overcome, shall we finally learn how to live", referring to AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Jochen Gerz, 1993.
  • Bond Street Homeopathic Dispensary, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Saint Valentine blessing an epileptic. Coloured etching.
  • Saint Valentine blessing an epileptic. Coloured etching.
  • Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner].
  • The tree of intemperance, showing diseases and vices caused by alcohol. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • Victim of elephantiasis. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
  • The Virgin of Mercy responding to the intercessions of saints by protecting people from arrows symbolising disease; the Devil rules below, where plague attacks the land. Lithograph after L. Dottorini after Benedetto Bonfigli, 1464 (?).
  • A doctor visiting a patient with a variety of microbes to improve the patient's health. Wood engraving after A. Rackham, 1905.
  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
  • Diseases treated by Yaya Konate. Watercolour painting, ca. 2010.
  • Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.