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A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, which she views suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.

Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.

A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.

An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor's bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery". Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910.

Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.

A man on a bicycle with a physician riding pillion; advertising the film "When father fetched the doctor". Colour lithograph, 191-.

An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.

A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.

A doctor placing his hand on the head of a sick boy, outside a country cottage. Photogravure after R. Hedley, 1898.

A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.

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Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.

A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.

A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.

A man on a bicycle with a physician riding pillion; advertising the film "When father fetched the doctor". Colour lithograph, 191-.

A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.