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  • A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.
  • A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A gouty man suffering with a painfully enlarged foot; presented by demons prodding it with arrows. Coloured etching, 1814.
  • A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.
  • A disgruntled gouty man ringing a bell for his servant who is just leaving the room. Etching.
  • An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
  • An emaciated patient protesting to his doctor, who is satisfied with his patient's demise. Watercolour.
  • A 'dentiste' extracting the tooth of a large well dressed gentleman. Coloured mezzotint by J. Wilson after himself, 1773.
  • Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon (?).
  • The alarmist Miss Minifie informing Miss Gunning and her mother of their banishment from the general's house. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
  • A doctor reprimanding an obese patient for not taking his medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1797.
  • Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.
  • A gouty man startled by death; represented as a skeletal figure wielding an arrow. Mezzotint, 1794.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A patient forcing a doctor to take some of his own medicine. Coloured engraving, 1794.
  • A man, decrepit with gout, helpless in his own home. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
  • A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
  • A gouty man surrounded by horse-riding accoutrements. Coloured engraving by Maddox after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
  • A young male physician holding the hand of a female patient, a squirrel is seated next to her chewing. Mezzotint.
  • A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
  • A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A man with gout seated at a table drinking with a parson and a woman. Coloured etching.
  • A man with gout seated at a table drinking with a parson and a woman. Coloured etching.
  • An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
  • An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.