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Concept

Sick

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  • Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.
  • A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • Three people praying around the bed of a sick man, one is a priest. Line engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Drawing by or after E. Le Sueur, 16--.
  • St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.
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    A young homoeopath takes a cup to a sick young man hidden in his bed. Coloured photolithograph.

    | Reference: 16630i
    Part of: L'oméopatie
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    Concerned parents trying to coax a sick child to take some liquid while a dog waits patiently. Watercolour by W.H. Margetson, 1901.

    Margetson, William Henry, active 1901. | Date: 19 April 1901 | Reference: 16897i
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    Vomiting and sickness, artwork

    Mary Rouncefield
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    A patient on his deathbed, representing the death of the Venetian Republic. Etching, ca. 1797.

    | Date: [1797?] | Reference: 563599i
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    The good Samaritan pouring oils on a wounded half-dead man. Line engraving by P. Casteels after S. Rosa.

    Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673. | Reference: 17912i
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