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An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.
Cremona, Ippolito, 1777-1844.Date: 1818-1820Reference: 23466i
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A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.
Steele, Gourlay, 1819-1894.Date: [1865?]Reference: 574957i
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Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after A.J. Gros, 1804.
Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835.Date: 1804Reference: 10095i
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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.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17149i
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Go in peace : containing some brief directions for young ministers in their visitation of the sick : useful for the people in their state both of health and sickness.
Martin, John, 1619-1693Date: 1687
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House calls / by Patch Adams ; [cartoons by Jerry Van Amerongen].
Adams, Patch, 1945-Date: [1998]
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Hospital ward in Liverpool Workhouse; requisitioned for wounded soldiers. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 23965i
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The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting a small child. Process print by R. Taylor, 1891, after T. Walter Wilson.
Wilson, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1851-1903.Date: 28 November 1891Reference: 38885i
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A monk visiting the victims of the great plague of Milan in 1630; an episode in Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi'. Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni.
Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873.Reference: 6413i
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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.
Numa, Pierre, active 1830-1848.Date: [1832?]Reference: 16438i
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Boer War: an elderly woman sitting outside with her son who is a patient at Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph.
W. Gregory & Co.Reference: 23740i
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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.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17155i
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Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to victims of the plague in Milan of 1576. Line engraving by F. de Poilly after P. Mignard.
Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.Reference: 10125i
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Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.
Reference: 10103i
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A daughter hides her thoughts from her ailing father as to his condition. Coloured lithograph by [J.S.].
S. J.Reference: 16380i
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Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
Begg, Samuel, active 1886-1900.Date: [31 March 1900]Reference: 23842i
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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.
Johnstone, Agnes M., active 1900.Date: 1900Reference: 23351i
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A group of aristocrats visit a young man in hospital. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by P. Hérault, c. 1925.
Hérault, Pierre.Reference: 17292i
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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.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 12202i
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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.
Horst, Nikolaus van der, 1598-1646.Date: 1630Reference: 27065i
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A niece visits her smallpocked uncle and gives him presents. Coloured engraving by Gautier.
Reference: 16154i
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Queen Victoria with her entourage visiting invalided soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, 1855.
Date: 10 March 1855Reference: 24436i
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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.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24114i
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Boer War: a wounded soldier being visited in hospital by his wife and little daughter. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph by E. H. Mills.
Mills, Ernest H.Date: 1900Reference: 23749i
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: charitable ladies visiting hospital patients with gifts of cigarettes and cakes. Coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24116i