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  • A tramp exclaiming to another tramp that his severed legs have become whole again as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Sick people gathered around the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem as an angel stirs the waters. Woodcut, 15--.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • A one-legged beggar with two crutches. Gouache possibly after J. Callot.
  • A variety of beggars, members of the organization of the "Argot". Wood engraving by A. Rivaud after a tapestry in Reims.
  • Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching after J. Cawse, 1799.
  • A physician bleeding a patient, other patients are waiting to see him; two erotes depicted on the shoulder of the vessel. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, ca. 1937.
  • Lourdes, France: the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: crutches left behind by pilgrims, amassed on the walls of the cave. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • A crowd of sick people congregates around Christ. Etching by J-L. Delignon after N.A. Monsiaux.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.
  • The "Ministry of all the Talents", personified by Charles James Fox, promising to convey John Bull towards the promised land, but really to hell. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1806.
  • An old woman in ragged clothes carrying a huge load on her back. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Five legless men moving with the aid of crutches in a yard. Etching by F.D. Hillemacher after P. Bruegel, 1871.
  • A woman being stabbed while the blood pouring from her wounds is drunk by a group of men; representing Britannia's resources being drained by politicians. Engraving, 1768.
  • Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.
  • A man in ragged clothes walking with two crutches and a wooden leg. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A ragged beggar carrying a banner reading "Capitano de baroni" leads a procession of lame people and beggars out of a village. Etching after J. Callot.
  • A shoe-seller who has one foot and goes himself unshod. Mezzotint by J. Gole after G.M. Mitelli.
  • The crutch polka / by Paul Favart.