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The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.

World War I: a Scottish soldier, wearing the kilt, lying wounded on a battlefield. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1916/1918.

Highland dwarfs.

A doctor meets an old Scottish convalescent who bemoans the cost of health care. Wood engraving, 1914.

Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.

A Scottish shepherd telling a doctor on the roadside about the death of his wife and how glad he is that he didn't take any of the medicine the doctor had prescribed for his wife. Wood engraving after L. Raven-Hill, 1908.

The Royal Caledonian Asylum, Copenhagen Fields, London: the facade. Coloured engraving by T. Barber after T. H. Shepherd, 1828.

A man wearing Scottish dress playing a violin in a rolling landscape. Etching by D. Deuchar.

Dr. Alexander Hamilton and provincial America : expanding the orbit of Scottish culture / Elaine G. Breslaw.

A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.

A man who has rented a haunted castle is asked to shave the ghost of a deceased barber. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1861.

A seated bare-chested man wearing a belted kilt; advertisement for safe sex by Scottish Aids Monitor. Lithograph.

A bull snorts angrily as it tosses a Spaniard in the air and is restrained by three men pulling its tail behind, a native American and a well-dressed French gentleman cower in fright to the right and a Dutchman sitting on a barrel of gin and smoking a pipe looks on in amusement. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1780.

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Dr. Alexander Hamilton and provincial America : expanding the orbit of Scottish culture / Elaine G. Breslaw.

A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.

A man who has rented a haunted castle is asked to shave the ghost of a deceased barber. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1861.

A seated bare-chested man wearing a belted kilt; advertisement for safe sex by Scottish Aids Monitor. Lithograph.