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1 print : process print ; platemark 15.6 x 17.8 cm

A painter painting while enjoying a hot bath. Reproduction of a drawing by Bert Thomas, 1924.

An old woman dying with her hand held by her daughter; two men, with impaired limbs, pay their last respects. Colour stipple print by E. & M.A. Scott after T. Stothard.

St. Camillus de Lellis was canonised by Benedict XIV in 1746, declared (along with St. John of God) the patron of the sick and hospitals by Leo XIII in 1886, later by Pius XI in 1930 their patronage was extended to include nurses and nursing in the catholic faith
Saint Camillus was the founder of the Order of Camillians or the Order of Clerics Regular, servants of the sick

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 28.3 x 22.5 cm

Two women comforting a fugitive youth while a monk looks in despair. Wood engraving.

Dialogue includes: Doctor. "Now, Giles, can you tell me exactly where you feel the pain?" Giles. "Well, sir, it's a hypercriterly sort of pain. I puts me finger on it and it ain't there an' when I touches where it's gone to, it's in the old place all the time!"

1 print : wood engraving ; border 17.7 x 12 cm

A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.

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1 print : photolithograph, with watercolour ; image 3.3 x 6.1 cm.

A young doctor (homeopath?) visiting a patient and comforting his worried wife. Coloured photolithograph.

According to a story recorded by Valerius Maximus, Cimon was condemned to prison to starve, but his daughter, Pero, saved him by breast feeding him

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 35.6 x 42.4 cm

Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.

Cimon was sentenced to starve to death but his daughter, Pero, saved him by breast-feeding him milk

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 37.2 x 27.4 cm

Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.

A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children.

Dialogue includes: Invalid, "Oh, doctor, I'm afraid I'm pretty well at death's door!" Doctor. "Don't you worry, my dear sir - we'll pull you through!"

1 print : wood engraving ; border 13.9 x 18 cm

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A painter painting while enjoying a hot bath. Reproduction of a drawing by Bert Thomas, 1924.

An old woman dying with her hand held by her daughter; two men, with impaired limbs, pay their last respects. Colour stipple print by E. & M.A. Scott after T. Stothard.

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Two women comforting a fugitive youth while a monk looks in despair. Wood engraving.

A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.

A young doctor (homeopath?) visiting a patient and comforting his worried wife. Coloured photolithograph.

Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.

Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.

A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children.

A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.

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A painter painting while enjoying a hot bath. Reproduction of a drawing by Bert Thomas, 1924.

An old woman dying with her hand held by her daughter; two men, with impaired limbs, pay their last respects. Colour stipple print by E. & M.A. Scott after T. Stothard.

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Two women comforting a fugitive youth while a monk looks in despair. Wood engraving.

A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.

A young doctor (homeopath?) visiting a patient and comforting his worried wife. Coloured photolithograph.

Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.

Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.

A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children.

A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.

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