Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
330 results
  • Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.
  • A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • Three people praying around the bed of a sick man, one is a priest. Line engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Drawing by or after E. Le Sueur, 16--.
  • St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.
  • The apostles Peter and John heal the lame man. Process print after Raphael.
  • A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
  • Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.
  • A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse. Coloured lithograph.
  • Sadi Carnot, the president of France, lies in bed having his pulse taken. Lithograph by H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893.
  • Christ healing lame people at the pool of Bethesda. Etching by D. Cunego, 1779, after J.A. Calvi after L. Carracci.
  • Christ stands among sick people and Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1776, after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family. Mezzotint.
  • A physician giving a medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon, supervised by a physician, amputating the leg of seated patient, representing pharmacy and surgery respectively. Engraving, 1646.
  • A doctor (Joseph Chelius) takes the pulse of a young woman who warms to his presence. Coloured etching, ca. 1831.
  • A patient lies on a chaise-longue, while a nurse brings her some refreshment. Wood engraving by J.C. Griffiths after G.G. Kilburne.
  • A procession of blind and physically disabled people; allegory about sticks: how children are afraid of the rod but disadvantaged adults come to rely on it. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563?.
  • A doctor asks how his patient is feeling, the patient (a precocious child) retorts condescendingly. Reproduction of a drawing by C. A. Shepperson, 1921.
  • Five kinds of treatment in hospitals and elsewhere. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Two nuns in a pharmacy, one holds a sick child on her lap: Sisters of Charity Order. Mezzotint by T. Oldham Barlow, 1862, after H. Browne.
  • Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: the care and management of the sick. Photographs by Fotografia Lombardi Siena, 18--, of fresco by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.
  • A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, which she views suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Saint Valentine blessing an epileptic. Coloured etching.