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The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.

Date

[1797?]

Reference

532358i

Above, a man studying the entrails of a cadaver as the microcosm, with the macrocosm behind; below, Hippocrates, holding the staff of Aesculapius, and Galen; bottom, instruments for anatomy and surgery. Engraving by A. Santvoort, ca. 1650.

Date

[1650?]

Reference

567446i

Temple of Aesculapius (in ruins), Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy: the boat-shaped exterior with visible carved serpent and defaced head of Aesculapius. Photograph by Peter Johnston-Saint, 1929.

Date

1929

Reference

576671i

The Middlesex Hospital, London: in the foreground a patient is helped from his sickbed towards his welcoming family by a surgeon and his assistant. Etching after A. Mills.

Reference

39168i

The London Hospital, Whitechapel. Engraving, 1758.

Reference

39432i

Joseph von Berres. Lithograph by J. Kriehuber, 1833.

Date

1833

Reference

1046i

Caspar Neumann. Line engraving by J.G. Wolffgang, 1734, after A. Pesne.

Date

1734

Reference

601030i

World War II: Soviet prisoners of war receiving a medical examination by a medical officer of the German army, 1941/1945. Drawing, ca. 1945.

Date

[1945?]

Reference

32610i

A young woman as Hygieia (Health). Stipple engraving by C. Taylor, 1789, after S. Shelley.

Date

Feb.y 1 1789

Reference

23846i

A woman weeping at the tomb of John Alderson, physician. Wood engraving by J. Greenwood, ca. 1829.

Date

[1829?]

Reference

590011i

Aesculapius and other ancients are presented with exotic materia medica from the far east, which are turned into medicines in a pharmaceutical elaboratory. Oil painting by Johannes Prey, 1791.

Date

17 7/16 91 [i.e. 16 July 1791]

Reference

466059i

Achievement of arms of Joseph Lister, Baron Lister. Watercolour.

Reference

45960i

Giuseppe Maria Saverio Bertini. Etching, 1752, after A. Selvi.

Date

1752

Reference

1060i

A doctor (Melchior Sebisch the younger?) seated holding the staff of Aesculapius; a dog, a cockerel, an owl and a dragon next to him. Engraving, 1661.

Date

1661

Reference

567735i

A medallion of the head Aesculapius (?) in profile, with the staff of Aesculapius. Drawing.

Reference

566805i

Hygieia as a personification of hygiene: a woman holding up the palm of her hand on the left and holding the staff of Aesculapius on the right, with water in the background; advertising an exhibition in Düsseldorf on health and welfare. Colour lithograph after L. ten Hompel, 1926.

Date

1926

Reference

659754i

Aesculapius and Hygieia, with Hercules fighting the hydra; representing medicine. Watercolour painting.

Reference

26069i

A woman holding a rod encircled by a snake leads an invalid; representing medicine. Process print after a bas-relief by U.A. Ricci.

Reference

26082i

Aesculapius (Asklepios). Oil painting.

Date

[Italia [Italy]]

Reference

44820i

Sunshine passes from a 1-Pfennig coin on to the staff of Aesculapius; representing the charity Stiftung Pfennigparade's work to advance medical care of children with poliomyelitis. Colour lithograph by Blasius Spreng, 1950.

Date

1950

Reference

5111i

A sick man reclining on a couch, men gathering plants to cure him; a man holding a staff of Aesculapius in the background. Engraving, 1709.

Date

1709

Reference

567829i

A palatial building representing the Academia Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae Curiosorum, surmounted by a coat of arms; two seated figures in the foreground. Engraving by J.G. Pintz, 17--.

Date

1700-1799

Reference

567632i

Above, portrait of Daniel Sennert in a roundel; centre, a man representing Experience holds the staff of Aesculapius and a lily, while a woman representing Reason holds a balance and a torch; below, Hippocrates and Hermes shake hands, representing the union of herbal and chemical medicine. Engraving by M. Merian, ca. 1631.

Date

[1631]

Reference

567448i

A bedridden girl dies of smallpox, mourned by three people, in a roundel. Etching by R. Adam after Devéria, 1824.

Date

1824

Reference

560165i

Isola Tiberina, Rome: a section of the travertine ship built under the temple of Aesculapius. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1756.

Date

[1756?]

Reference

2008575i