A battle with a scene of military surgery. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, ca. 1700(?).

The mahatmya of the fifth adhyaya. The bottom half of the painting depicts Pingala's life as a Brahman, his argument with his wife and his death by poisoning. The upper half illustrates the narrative of their subsequent births as birds: they fight in an ascetic's skull in a cremation ground and are given new divine bodies. In the new form they are taken to the court of Dharmaraja, the judge of the actions of mortals

Crimean War, Turkey: interior of the Barrack hospital, Scutari. Wood engraving.

Portrait of James Lind, 1716-1794, Physician at Haslar

Mentally ill patients in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.