Sir, Herewith I have the honor to transmit to you ... / Surgeon General's Office, War Office, U.S.

Doctor Smith, an Australian surgeon, sitting outside a shack, reading a book. Photograph by T.J. Washbourne, ca. 1870/1888.

A careless lathe operator getting his tie caught in the lathe. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943.

Doctor Rock, a vendor of medicines, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd at Kennington common: John and Charles Wesley are preaching in the background. Engraving, 1743.

A row of 5 black silhouette syringes pointing diagonally to the right representing a warning about the dangers of contracting AIDS through unsafe use of syringes by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.

Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.

Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.

Johann Arnold Joseph Büttner. Lithograph by F. Jentzen, 1830, after F. Krüger.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Uncovering experiences of dementia

The solidarity of sickness

The birth of Britain's National Health Service

Catalogue of the exhibition of old, rare, and curious books, manuscripts, autographs, etc. held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the public library of Victoria.

The one hundred and thirty-ninth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1889 : established April, 1751.

Scientific instruments on display / edited by Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer, Mara Miniati.

The one hundred and thirty-eighth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1888 : established April, 1751.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Uncovering experiences of dementia

The solidarity of sickness

The birth of Britain's National Health Service

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Catalogue

Catalogue of the exhibition of old, rare, and curious books, manuscripts, autographs, etc. held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the public library of Victoria.

Doctor Smith, an Australian surgeon, sitting outside a shack, reading a book. Photograph by T.J. Washbourne, ca. 1870/1888.

The one hundred and thirty-ninth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1889 : established April, 1751.

Scientific instruments on display / edited by Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer, Mara Miniati.

The one hundred and thirty-eighth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1888 : established April, 1751.

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Stories

Eugenics and the welfare state

Uncovering experiences of dementia

The solidarity of sickness

The birth of Britain's National Health Service

Images

Catalogue

Catalogue of the exhibition of old, rare, and curious books, manuscripts, autographs, etc. held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the public library of Victoria.

Doctor Smith, an Australian surgeon, sitting outside a shack, reading a book. Photograph by T.J. Washbourne, ca. 1870/1888.

The one hundred and thirty-ninth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1889 : established April, 1751.

Scientific instruments on display / edited by Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer, Mara Miniati.

The one hundred and thirty-eighth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1888 : established April, 1751.