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  • Termes médicaux utiles aux personnes migrantes ... / ARCAT.
  • A pink piece of paper bearing the words 'AIDS' torn on one side against a turquoise background with the words 'Sehen sie klar? 'Schauen sie Vorbei!' [See it clearly? Look they pass!]; an advertisement for advice, assistance and information by the AIDS health counseling offices, Berlin. Colour lithograph by Sehstern.
  • Ways to catch the flu. Colour lithograph after designs by Coggin, 194-.
  • A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.
  • Termes médicaux utiles aux personnes migrantes ... / ARCAT.
  • The breviarie of health: vvherin doth folow, remedies for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman / Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, doctor of phisicke: an English-man. Now newly corrected and amended, with some approued medicines that neuer were in print before this impression, & are aptly placed in their proper chapters, by men skilfull in phisicke and chirurgerie.
  • A young woman as Hygieia (Health). Stipple engraving by C. Taylor, 1789, after S. Shelley.
  • A sculpture of a naked young man seated, representing the National Socialist ideal of strength and health resulting from willpower and self-confidence. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.
  • Detecting colon cancer in human tissues, LM
  • The castel of helth / gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preservation of helth, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued.
  • A man resting after a drink; representing good digestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • A pink heart dreaming of love, faithfulness, and health in the face of epidemic illness from AIDS among gay men. Colour lithograph after M. Dubnický, 1991.
  • Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, a treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated ... Whereunto is annexed ... a treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer ... Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All ... amplified / [Tobias Venner].
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • Above, a woman personifying health addresses Death; below, Apollo, attended by an agitated crowd of patients, heals a sick man; representing the medical writings of Frederik Dekkers. Etching.
  • Termes médicaux utiles aux personnes migrantes ... / ARCAT.
  • A man about to go hunting and a man in a wheelchair, both drinking Fritz Seyfarth's Conservator (health drink), advertising the product for the healthy and the sick. Lithograph by Leonard Fries.
  • Gesundheits-Katechismus zum Gebrauche in den Schulen und beym häuslichen Unterrichte / von Bernhard Christoph Faust ; in Faksimile herausgegeben und mit Nachwort versehen von Martin Vogel.
  • A young man and young woman who appear to be healthy, but may have latent tuberculosis; representing the need of a checkup for detection of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by S. Hansen, ca. 1946.
  • Detecting cancer in human tissues, LM
  • Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French. Of J.A. Salgues.
  • A sculpture of a naked young man seated, representing the National Socialist ideal of strength and health resulting from willpower and self-confidence. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • The Virgin of Health in the church of St. Catherine of Strada Maggiore at Bologna. Photogravure.
  • Two partially skeleton couples embrace representing the risk of death from AIDS; the winning poster by Mirjam Kongi from a competition entited 'Teenagers and Health' organised by the Estonian "Anti-AIDS" Association. Colour lithograph, ca.
  • Hygieia, goddess of health, holding a pentacle and a staff encircled by a snake. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1595.
  • Aesculapius (representing medicine) routing death, Ceres (?) supplying milk to the starving. Drawing attributed to J.-C. Bordier du Bignon, 1822.
  • A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.