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A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.

Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.

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.

A ward on the top deck of a hospital ship with patients standing or sitting by their beds. Engraving.

Austro-Prussian War: the Prussian King William I visiting wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, ca. 1866.

Hospital visitors / Body Positive.

A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.

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.

Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

A French lady visiting cholera sufferers in hospital. Lithograph by Adèle Prieur, 1832.

An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after A.J. Gros, 1804.

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.

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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.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after A.J. Gros, 1804.

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.

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.