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  • 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.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A ward on the top deck of a hospital ship with patients standing or sitting by their beds. Engraving.
  • Austro-Prussian War: the Prussian King William I visiting wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, ca. 1866.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.
  • 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.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • A French lady visiting cholera sufferers in hospital. Lithograph by Adèle Prieur, 1832.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a queue of hospital visitors with a nurse collecting money for the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.
  • The sense of smell: a man lying in bed smells flowers as another lights some incense, above, a priest stands before a burning sacrifice of a lamb. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Queen Victoria with her entourage visiting invalided soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • A man visits a woman in hospital. Colour process print after a lithograph by T.A. Steinlen.
  • Boer War: a busy hospital ward on St. Patrick's day with a wounded Irishman being offered shamrock by a visiting lady. Process print after R. Macbeth after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • Boer War: an elderly woman sitting outside with her son who is a patient at Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph.
  • Boer War: the High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, visiting a hospital ward where two men lie injured. Pen drawing by Sahr, c.1901, after H.D. Collison-Morley.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • Mothers and nurses play with sick children on New Years Day. Wood engraving by H. Harral after M.E. Edwards.
  • A portly, well-to-do physician leaves his house, while his wife cavorts in the window with a young dandy. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1832.
  • The sense of smell: a man lying in bed smells flowers as another lights some incense, above, a priest stands before a burning sacrifice of a lamb. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to victims of the plague in Milan of 1576. Line engraving by F. de Poilly after P. Mignard.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa. Etching by W. Angus, 1805, after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • A fashionable young woman fainting into the arms of a young man at the bedside of an invalid. Engraving.
  • In the first picture, a doctor promises a patient a drive out in a car in a few days; the second picture shows a hearse solemnly departing. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.