Illness Collection (page 8)

Letter from William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury to Edward Conway, 14th August 1640. Artist: William Laud
Letter from William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury to Edward Conway, 14th August 1640. Letter written from Croydon by William Laud to Edward Conway, Viscount Conway

The Lady Receives Charity, (1885). Artist: Eisen
The Lady Receives Charity, (1885). Illustration from 18th Century Institutions, Usages And Costumes, France 1700-1789, by Paul Lacroix, (Paris, 1885)

St Jude and King Ahaziah, second half of the 14th century, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
St Jude and King Ahaziah, second half of the 14th century, (1843). Scenes from a manuscript service book and lectionary. St Jude is writing his epistle with the tools of a scribe - the quire is here

Louis, the eldest son of Philip Auguste, king of France, lies ill in bed, 1191, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
Louis, the eldest son of Philip Auguste, king of France, lies ill in bed, 1191, (1843). After a woodcut from the chronicles of St Denis written in the reign of Charles VI

King George III. George III (George William Frederick, 1738-1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801

Livingstone Weak From Fever Escorted to Shintes Town, 19th century. David Livingstone (1813-1873) arrived in Africa in 1840 at the age of 27 as a missionary and physician

A Bawd on Her Last Legs, 1792. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
A Bawd on Her Last Legs, 1792. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Healing of Tobit, c1635. Artist: Bernardo Strozzi
The Healing of Tobit, c1635. The Archangel Raphael, sent by God to heal Tobit of his blindness. The Book of Tobit is regarded as part of the biblical canon by the Catholic

At the Sick Friend, 19th century. Artist: Isidore Patrois
At the Sick Friend, 19th century. Found in the collection of the M Kroshitsky Art Museum, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Russian author Leo Tolstoy with a bad leg, Russia, 1908. Artist: Sophia Tolstaya
Russian author Leo Tolstoy with a bad leg, Russia, 1908. Found in the collection of the State Museum of Leo Tolstoy, Moscow

Russian author Leo Tolstoy recovering in Gaspra, Crimea, Russia, 1902. Artist: Sophia Tolstaya
Russian author Leo Tolstoy recovering in Gaspra, Crimea, Russia, 1902. Tolstoy (1828-1910) lived in Gaspra in 1901-1902. Found in the collection of the State Museum of Leo Tolstoy, Moscow

The Compassion, 1887. Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Compassion, 1887. Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre Cecil (1824-1898). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Female Head, 18th century. Artist: Francois Boucher
Female Head. Boucher, Francois (1703-1770). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Advertising poster for Pastilles Poncelet, a cold and bronchitis remedy, 1896. Artist: Jules Cheret
Advertising poster for Pastilles Poncelet, a cold and bronchitis remedy, 1896. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Help fight against tuberculosis!, poster, 1910. Artist: Nikolai Gerardov
Help fight against tuberculosis!, poster, 1910. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet, 1910s. Yesenin (1895-1925), one of the most popular Russian poets of the 20th century, was a member of the Imaginists

Radium treatment to cure a nasal infection, France, c1947-1951
Radium treatment to cure a nasal infection, France, 20th century. Part of the Marshall Plan mercy mission. The Marshall Plan was a massive programme of US aid for the reconstruction of Europe after

Eleven yeat old boy in an iron lung, Beaujon Hospital, Paris, c1947-1951
Eleven year old boy in an iron lung, Beaujon Hospital, Paris, c1947-1951. Part of the Marshall Plan mercy mission. The Marshall Plan was a massive programme of US aid for the reconstruction of Europe

Death of Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary leader, 27th April 1803. Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture led the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution

News of king Edwards VIIs illness in London, 1902. Edwards coronation, originally scheduled for 26th June 1902, had to be postponed after he was struck down with appendicitis two days before

Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Stricken of Jaffa, 11th March 1799, 19th century

Cholera in Russia, the troubles in Astrakhan, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Cholera in Russia, the troubles in Astrakhan, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 6th August 1892

The taking away of the insane in Villejuif, Paris, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
The taking away of the insane in Villejuif, Paris, 1891. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 12th December 1891

People reading the bulletins of King George Vs last illness, 1935. The king died of bronchial illness in January 1936. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury

Electricity In The Art Of Healing, 1881. Artist: W Shinkle
Electricity In The Art Of Healing, 1881. US President James Garfield has medical attention from an electrical detector. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

Tobit, c1470, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
Tobit, c1470, (1843). Tobit, blind and sick, has just dispatched his son Tobias to the city of Rages. The woman cooking is his wife Anna. She is using a jack to hang the pot over the fire

Surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

Head surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

Eye surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

Breast surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

George the III, King of Great Britain, 1777. Artist: W Walker
George the III, King of Great Britain, 1777. Portrait of George III (1738-1820), king from 1760. A plate from The Copper-Plate Magazine or A Monthly Treasure, London, 1777

The Duke of Orleans During the Cholera Epidemic, c1830. Artist: Alfred Johannot
The Duke of Orleans Visiting the Sick at L Hotel-Dieu During the Cholera Epidemic in 1832, c1830

Of what ill he die?, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Of what ill he die?, 1799. Plate 40 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression

The Cross, c1900-1939. Artist: Alphonse Mucha
The Cross, c1900-1939. Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century

Death and Apotheosis of Napoleon II, 19th century

The Death of Napoleon the Great, 5 May 1821, 1825. Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815

The Death of the Woman of Darius, 1785. Artist: Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee
The Death of the Woman of Darius, 1785. The death of Statira, the wife of Darius III of Persia, in the captivity of Alexander the Great in 331 BC. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Bacchus, 1560. Artist: Valerio di Simone Cioli
Bacchus, 1560. Statue in the Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy. It shows Pietro Barbino, Cosimo Is court dwarf, as Bacchus, riding a tortoise

Gout and the Spider, c1835. Physician attending a clerical patient suffering from a case of gout. Illustration for Gout and the Spider from Fables by Jean de La Fontaine. (Paris, c1835)

Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890. Malaria is caused a parasitic protozoa transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito

Cretin aged 15, c1890.Cretinism in infants and children is caused by a defective thyroid gland and failure to produce the hormone thyroxine. Sufferers are mentally and physically retarded

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, 1889
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, [1889]. Laennec (1781-1826) is shown listening to a patients chest at the Necker Hospital, Paris

Symptoms of the tertiary phase of syphilis, c19th century. A patient afflicted with sores and ulcers to the neck and face, including one which has destroyed part of the nasal cartilage

Thomas Willis, 17th century English physician, 1742. Artist: George Vertue
Thomas Willis, 17th century English physician, 1742. Willis (1621-1675) was the first in modern times to notice the sweetish taste of diabetic urine in diabetes mellitus

Smallpox victim, c1890. From a French medical book

The Nightingales Song to to the Sick Soldier, 1854. Florence Nightingale tending a sick soldier in hospital in the Crimea

St Anthony the Great, Egyptian aesthetic. Also known as Antony of Thebes, St Anthony was the father of Christian monasticism and is the patron saint of herdsmen

Thomas Willis, physician, 1742. Artist: George Vertue
Thomas Willis, physician, 1742. To the left of his portrait are parts of a skull and a diagram of the spine and ribcage. To the right are several books

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