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  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the gentleman's verandah. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.
  • East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell: a party in one of the wards on New Year's Eve. Wood engraving, 1870.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded soldiers being treated in the church at Mouzon n the Ardennes. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a young man recovering from smallpox. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Edwin Davis, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J. Mawson, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Medical staff standing round a woman patient in bed in a hospital ward. Photograph by Seeberger Frères, ca. 1910.
  • Tabitha Grunt a hypochondriac who appears to suffer from many illnesses, consulting a bemused looking doctor. Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A surgeon and two assistants manipulating a dislocated shoulder joint back into the correct position. Etching by T. Jefferys.
  • A surgeon amputating a grimacing patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants, the operation is near completion. Engraving, 1738.
  • Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.
  • A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A German army doctor sits at a patient's bedside: a second soldier and a woman stand by. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • A patient suffering adverse effects of arsenic treatment. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Boer War: arrival of the sick and wounded at Grand Central Freight Depot for transportation. Pen and ink drawing by A. Weil.
  • Paris: a medical professor taking the pulse of a sick man in a hospital bed while medical students watch and take notes. Drawing by J.H. Marlet, ca. 1810.
  • A nun in her habit carrying medicine and her Bible, with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Heal the sick. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses arguing and going to various places to cry. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
  • A surgeon opening an abcess on the arm of a reclining man who is leaning on the lap of the surgeon's assistant. Colour stipple engraving by S. Mulinari, 1796, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Edith Mills, a smallpox patient, after recovery. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • A lecherous doctor taking the pulse of an old woman while fondling a young one. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • Wounded soldiers being taken to hospital by ambulance. Wood engraving by J. Gaildrau, 1854.
  • A swollen lethargic patient with ten physicians seated around a table on which are axes and a halter; symbolising England's government and the need for reform. Engraving, 1756.
  • American Civil War: officers saluting the wounded being brought in after the battle of Lewinsville, Virginia, 1861. Wood engraving by F. Skill.
  • Boer War: a wounded man addresses a superior officer seated at his bedside. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Edwin Davis, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.