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Section of a Theatre, 1762.  Creator: Charles Harding.
 
Indian Fakir, 1880.  Creator: C. B. Dering.
 
Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from 'Macbeth', 19th century? Creator: Unknown.
 
An Indian woman, about to be burned on her dead husband's funeral pyre, 1814. Creator: Susanna Wales.
 
An elderly dentist examining a female patient's mouth, c1895. Creator: Martin Anderson.
 
A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician, c1895. Creator: Martin Anderson.
 
A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians, c1760s. Creator: Tobias Müller.
 
A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain..., 1905. Creator: LH Choustrac.
 
Prime Joints of Missionary - Buy! buy!, late 19th-early 20th century? Creator: Edwin Harcourt Burrage.
 
Doctor Humbugallo, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares from a stage..., c1800s. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.
 
A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon..., ([1800?). Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.
 
Patients consulting an obese quack, 1807. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.
 
Patients consulting an obese quack, 1807. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.
 
A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid, c1800s. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.
 
The Panama Canal: for an enquiry into its financing, a policeman guards a prison..., (1897?). Creator: HS Robert.
 
Preservativi pel Cholera Morbus secondo il Sistema di Saphir, 1832.  Creator: Moritz Gottlieb Saphir.
 
Amor Vincit Omnes, late 19th-early 20th century. Creator: Martin Anderson.
 
Bangkok, Siam [Thailand], 1867, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Hall of Classics (Guozijian), Peking: a triple archway of sculpted marble leading... 1871, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Bonham Strand, Hong Kong, 1869. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Fujian, province, China: a pailou (memorial arch) dedicated to a virtuous widow, 1870/1871. Creator: John Thomson.
 
A segregation camp, Karachi: aerial view, 1897. Creator: Unknown.
 
Lunatic asylum (once a convent), Granada: gateway, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India: entrance gate, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river..., [1800-1899?]. Creator: Unknown.
 
Taku, China: the North Fort: Chinese corpses following the capture of the fort by the Eng..., 1860. Creator: Felice Beato.
 
Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, 1868/1871. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong,  1981 (from a negative of 1868/1871). Creator: John Thomson.
 
Nanking, Kiangsu province, China: stone warriors at the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first..., 1871. Creator: John Thomson.
 
A plague patient being transported on a manually propelled ambulance carriage...,  1896/1897. Creator: Unknown.
 
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India: the gateway, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India: entrance gate, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges, 19th cent Creator: Unknown.
 
The Parsee Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, c1873.  Creator: William Pryor Floyd.
 
A segregation camp during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India, 1897. Creator: Unknown.
 
Scutari: people in the Turkish burial ground; city in the background, 1854. Creator: Montagu O'Reilly.
 
Black Death - pictorial diagram..., late 19th-early 20th century?  Creator: Monro Scott Orr.
 
Grotteschi in the Vatican: mural decorative panels showing birds and figures, c1520s. Creator: Giovanni da Udine.
 
New Zealand: Maori carvings, c1840s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Tree in central Africa where David Livingstone's heart is buried, showing the inscription.., c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Larnaca, Cyprus, 1878. Creator: John Thomson.
 
China, 1869. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments.., c1920s.  Creator: Unknown.
 
Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Trophies of a headhunter's house of the Chang Naga tribe, India,..., c1930s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Winchester: tombstone of Thomas Thetcher, who "died of a violent fever contracted by..., 1800-1899. Creator: Unknown.
 
Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice, two objects..., c1890s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Kalyo Kengyu, northern India: human heads hung up as trophies in a Naga village, c1930s. Creator: Unknown.
 
The birth of the Virgin, late 16th century.
 
A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag, c1610s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Giza, Egypt: a dance by sword dancers in the commandant's house, c1780s. Creator: Luigi Mayer.
 
A sick, dying or dead woman lying on a bed in the presence of three figures, c1700. Creator: Gerard Hoet.
 
A man taking the pulse of another man, between 1800 and 1899. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: Maori funeral rites, c1880s. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: two Maori women, c1880s. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: a Maori woman and child, 19th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: a group of Maori in front of a traditional building, 19th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
Canton, Kwangtung province, China, 1869, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Kowloon, Kwangtung province, China, 1869, (1981). Creator: Unknown.