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  • A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Children with orthopedic disorders. Twenty six pen drawings.
  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • A sick child sitting on her father's knee while her mother prepares some soup for her, a dead rabbit is lying on the floor. Chromolithograph after J. Clark.
  • A nun supporting a sick child; representing the work of the Herwonnen Levenskracht movement in helping tuberculous children. Colour lithograph by M. Wiegman, ca. 1930.
  • A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.
  • A convalescent girl, lying in bed, holding a bunch of flowers. Photograph by Ernest G. Boon, ca. 1904.
  • A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.
  • A physician examining a gypsy child with a stethoscope outside a tent on the side of the road. Halftone by Swain after W. Small, 1898.
  • A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.
  • A desperately unhappy woman cradling her sick child. Etching by T.A. Steinlen, 1902.
  • A small child in bed, perhaps ill. Etching.
  • A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family. Mezzotint.
  • A physician bandaging the hand of a boy, who is surrounded by his large family. Heliogravure by Dujardin after P.A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret.
  • A rural medical practitioner examining a urine specimen, a concerned mother with two children sitting near him. Line engraving by A. Fleischmann, 1839, after J.F.C. Kreul (?).
  • A doctor attempting to talk to an ill child and being completely misunderstood. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Baumer, 1926.
  • A physician stirring medicine in a cup which is refused by a repulsed little girl, her mother stands behind her smiling. Mezzotint by J. Jervis, 1842, after W. White.
  • A doctor visiting a sick child who is surrounded by medicine bottles, his mother waits in the background. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1911.
  • A physician dispensing medicine through a window, a large group of patients are waiting their turn, a female assistant has a medicine chest suspended from her neck, Italy 17--. Coloured wood engraving by M. Klinkicht after H. Wallis.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • A woman representing knowledge examining a sick child. Lithograph by G. Tyr after A.J.V. Orsel.
  • An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.
  • Children with orthopedic disorders. Twenty six pen drawings.
  • Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Children with Hip Disease, Queen Square, Holborn: the interior of a ward, with a teacher giving a gymnastics lesson. Photogravure after A. Forestier, 1908.
  • A sick boy pulling a peculiar face after eating some gruel which also contained some medicine. Engraving by W. Holl, the younger, after W. Hunt.
  • A doctor placing his hand on the head of a sick boy, outside a country cottage. Photogravure after R. Hedley, 1898.
  • A physician stirring medicine in a cup which is refused by a repulsed little girl, her mother stands behind her smiling. Mezzotint by J. Jervis, 1842, after W. White.
  • The good Samaritan: a physician on his way to the opera stops to attend a sick gypsy child; father and siblings dressed in rags in the background. Photogravure after W. Small, 1899.
  • A mother explaning to a doctor that her baby's medicine has been used up quickly because the whole family tried it - to encourage baby to take some. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Prance, 1923.
  • A country doctor comforting the mother of a sick child, who is in bed in the background. Mezzotint by J.A. Allais after P. Duval-Lecamus.