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  • Saint Francis Xavier: he is experiencing bloodletting from the arm. Engraving.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
  • A surgeon instructing a younger surgeon how to bleed a male patient's foot, a woman is comforting the patient. Engraving, 1586.
  • Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.
  • A patient being bled by a surgeon with three dismayed onlookers; represented by five faun-like demons. Coloured etching.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Lithograph by J.D. Harding, 1828, after E. Bristow.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A man rushing into a barber-surgeons' shop to inform the practitioner of the imminent need to vote. Lithograph.
  • A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Operators letting blood from the arm of a woman in a room crowded with pharmacy jars. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • Esbatal : Esbatal has been shown to be preferred by the patients themselves as an anti-hypertensive therapy ...
  • A surgeon on the battlefield. Process print after C. Maurer, 1594.
  • A surgeon bleeding a woman patient's arm, he is assisted by two attendants. Engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • A doctor prescribes another ninety leeches for a sick, bedbound man; gentlemen crowd around the bed. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1827.
  • A surgeon tending a woman who has just fainted after bloodletting; she is supported by female members of her family. Engraving by Garlieb after Eglon Hendrik van der Neer.
  • A surgeon bleeding the arm of a young woman: she is being comforted by another woman. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson (?), 1784.
  • Interior of a surgery with a woman having blood let from the arm, a surgeon treating a man's injured foot, and other figures. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A physician bleeding a patient, other patients are waiting to see him; two erotes depicted on the shoulder of the vessel. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, ca. 1937.
  • Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Coloured lithograph by J.D. Harding after E. Bristowe.