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  • Physician and patient
  • Physician and patient, 13th Century
  • Arab physician and patient. 13th Century
  • Apothecary, patient and physician, 14th century.
  • Patient in bed, two nurses and a physician standing by.
  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • A physician and two assistants attending a plague patient. Lithographic reproduction of a woodcut.
  • A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Physician talking to a female patient in a garden with servants preparing medicaments and potions. Persian lacquered binding board cover of the Canon transcribed in Isfahan 1632.
  • Physician talking to a female patient in a garden with servants preparing medicaments and potions. Persian lacquered binding board cover of the Canon transcribed in Isfahan 1632.
  • A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A physician, a woman patient and an alchemist (?). Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans I.
  • A physician, a burgess (the physician's patient), and the dean of a university, in their respective costumes, 13--. Coloured wood engraving by Cupré after F.P.
  • Physician talking to a female patient in a garden with servants preparing medicaments and potions. Persian lacquered binding board front cover of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine transcribed in Isfahan 1632.
  • A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician. Watercolour by M. Anderson.
  • A physician giving a medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon, supervised by a physician, amputating the leg of seated patient, representing pharmacy and surgery respectively. Engraving, 1646.
  • A physician giving a medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon, supervised by a physician, amputating the leg of seated patient, representing pharmacy and surgery respectively. Engraving, 1646.
  • A physician looks at the coffin of a deceased patient and says "I cured him too". Watercolour, ca. 1752/1755.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • A Roman mosaic (detail depicting a physician and patient ?), displayed at the Archeological museum of Algiers, Algeria. Photograph, 1940/1970 (?), of a mosaic detail.
  • A German physician recommending to a gouty English patient that he take the waters at various spa resorts in Germany and Bohemia. Wood engraving after R. Cleaver.
  • 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 physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • A physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
  • A physician reeling with surprise at an obese elderly man's pulse, the patient is grinning at a woman who approaches him with a tray full of food and wine. Photogravure after J.G. Vibert.