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  • A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.
  • Church of St. Mildred, Whippingham: Winchester Diocesan Training College floor plan. Wood engraving by O. Jewitt, 1863.
  • The pest house and plague pit, Moorfields, London. Wood engraving.
  • Invalided soldiers assembled in the garden of Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, c. 1855.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • Crimean War, France: fishwomen carrying the luggage of nurses at Boulogne. Wood engraving by W. Thomas.
  • A man in rags announcing the forthcoming doom, during the great plague in London. Wood engraving by A.B. Frost.
  • Geography: a volcano in eruption. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Russo-Turkish War: a wounded Turkish soldiers is brought to two doctors wearing the Red Crescent; a nurse is giving some water to another wounded man; a makeshift hospital in the background. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts after J.E. Hodgson, ca. 1877.
  • Charles de l'Ecluse (Clusius). Wood engraving by E. Vermorcken after H. Hendrickx.
  • A panorama of London, looking north from Lambeth. Wood engraving by R. Loudan, before 1870, after T. Sulman.
  • A street tooth-drawer on his stall extracting a tooth from a patient. Wood engraving after C. Fripp (?).
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the new wing. Wood engraving, 1864.
  • A dog with a heavy collar sitting outside a police station. Wood engraving by J. Knight after H. Weir, 1864.
  • Five kinds of treatment in hospitals and elsewhere. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, looking through a microscope. Wood engraving by A. Marie, 1885.
  • John Tyndall. Wood engraving by C. Roberts.
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator machine in use in the Colosseum, London, with many condenser jars and four operators. Wood engraving, 1839.
  • A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • Sketches from a smallpox epidemic in Cape Town. Wood engraving.
  • A hospital ward in the military hospital, Portsea. Wood engraving by W. Thomas, 1855.
  • Trinity Schools, Margate, Kent. Wood engraving by Laing, 1850, after W. Caveller.
  • A patient complains to a visitor that he does not discuss with his doctor how he feels for fear of discouraging him. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1915.
  • Marine and City Hospital, Mobile, Alabama. Wood engraving.
  • A barber shaving a customer; then cutting his nose off: a sequence of fifteen pictures. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Benjamin Howard assisted by Sir E. Sieveking demonstrating artificial respiration on a supine figure at the Royal Humane Society. Wood engraving by T. Robinson, 1878, after C. Robinson.
  • A sailor running away from the ships dentist who is attempting to pull out one of his teeth. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
  • Geography: avalanches of mud. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • The workplace of a female healer (midwife and surgeon), with signboard, from outside. Reproduction of wood engraving after H. Daumier, 1841.
  • A kakapo or owl parrot on a branch. Wood engraving by W. & S. Ltd.