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Illness and Diseases


Famine, Plague, etc.



5 subcategories
Famine

FAMINE

Insanity

INSANITY

Leprosy

LEPROSY

Patients and Invalids

PATIENTS AND INVALIDS

Plague

PLAGUE

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Country doctor applying a painful cure of moxibustion (traditional Chinese medical therapy utilizing special herbs) to a man's back. Hanging scroll, silk embroidery. Song Dynasty, China; 10th century CE.
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Country doctor applying a painful cure of moxibustion (traditional Chinese medic...

Dante and Virgil with plague-stricken in Hell. From Dante's Divina Commedia. Italian; 14th century.
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Dante and Virgil with plague-stricken in Hell. From Dante's Divina Commedia. It...

Pharaoh commands the Israelites to leave Egypt; the plague of the first born; the passage of the Red Sea; the pursuit by the Egyptians. Vellum manuscript. Vellum manuscript. From "The Golden Haggadah". Catalonia; early 14th century. Shelfmark: Add. 27210 Page Folio Number: f.14v
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Pharaoh commands the Israelites to leave Egypt; the plague of the first born; th...

Office for the Dead at Matins. Job, his wife and comforters; beginning of Psalm 94 with decorated initial 'V'. Set within an architectural framework. From a Book of Hours. France; 16th century. Shelfmark: Add. 35315 Page Folio Number: f.66v
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Office for the Dead at Matins. Job, his wife and comforters; beginning of Psalm...

Evening on March 15, 1848 in Vienna. Lithograph; 19th century.
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Evening on March 15, 1848 in Vienna. Lithograph; 19th century.

Suffragettes being force-fed during a hunger strike in 1909. Lithograph; 20th century.
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Suffragettes being force-fed during a hunger strike in 1909. Lithograph; 20th c...

The visit of the doctor. Fresco; 17th century CE.
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The visit of the doctor. Fresco; 17th century CE.

The doctor is of no avail when confronted by Death.
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The doctor is of no avail when confronted by Death.

Masked doctor during the plague in Venice. From the Grevenbroeck manuscript; 17th century.
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Masked doctor during the plague in Venice. From the Grevenbroeck manuscript; 17...

The amputation. Etching; 1793.
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The amputation. Etching; 1793.

"Cholera tramples the victor and vanquish'd both." From McLean's Monthly Sheet of Caricatures; 19th century.
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"Cholera tramples the victor and vanquish'd both." From McLean's Monthly Sheet...

An operation at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Canvas; 1920/21.
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An operation at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Canvas; 1920/21.