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  • 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.
  • A doctor goes off gallivanting with two young dancers. Colour process print after by J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A gentleman compares the size of his syringe with a physician's clyster; he says that his is for the other side of the body. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An elderly couple are advised to try artificial insemination. Process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A doctor and his patient laugh during a consultation; behind, a nun stands by the door. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A railway employee (?) wheels away the dismembered body of a man killed in a railway accident; he converses with a physician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A physician carries an anonymous, re-usable wreath 'to his clients'. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A man has a joke with his optician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires / dessin d'Abel Faivre.
  • A surgeon apologetically takes a breather during an amputation operation: a bottle of champagne waits in a cooler; a doctor and nurse canoodle while the patient screams. Colour process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • In the first picture, a doctor promises a patient a drive out in a car in a few days; the second picture shows a hearse solemnly departing. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A doctor tells a farm labourer that he has never touched his wife. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A military physician examines a bandsman who has a poorly foot and cannot march in time. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A physician molests a young lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An elderly couple are advised to try artificial insemination. Process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A beautiful young woman looks away coyly while an aged doctor examines her chest. Chromolithograph after A. Faivre.
  • A gleeful physician closely examines the buttocks of a middle-aged lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires / dessin d'Abel Faivre.
  • Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires / dessin d'Abel Faivre.
  • A forensic surgeon wonders where to begin with a headless corpse. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An ailing old man surrounded by medicine bottles and cases moans that his doctor has not given him enough medicine. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires / dessin d'Abel Faivre.
  • A patient wonders where he should 'cough up' (his spittle); the doctor responds that if he means money, then into his hand. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Surgeons group around a patient exhibiting an especially dramatic anal fistula; the patient happily thinks to himself that he has never before been the object of such attention. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An old doctor, about to vaccinate a young lady, leers at her chest; he says he can see two injections that have taken well. Process print by Rousset after J-A. Faivre.