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  • Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • King Seleucus and Queen Stratonice are visiting Antiochus who is reclining on a daybed while his physician Erasistratus is taking his pulse. Engraving by J. de Longueil after C.P. Marillier, 1774.
  • A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
  • A woman suffering from elephantiasis, being examined by three people. Reproduction of an oil painting by A. del Sarto.
  • A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.
  • A medical practitioner examining the throat of a nervous woman via the anus. Cut paper silhouette by Elkan.
  • Surgeons examining a Mauser bullet in a man's chest via the use of an X-ray. Halftone, 1900, after W. Small.
  • A doctor is delighted at confronting a full-blown case of cholera. Coloured lithograph by Cham, c. 1845.
  • A gleeful physician closely examines the buttocks of a middle-aged lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that the illness of Antiochus (son of Seleucus I) is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises when ever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy after A. Desenne after G. de Lairesse.
  • Johann Gottfried Matthes (Mathes), a "natural healer", taking the pulse of a patient suffering from the dropsy. Etching, 1784.
  • An American and an English doctor discussing Viennese doctors. Wood engraving.
  • The sphygmograph : its history and use as an aid to diagnosis in ordinary practice / R.E. Dudgeon.
  • A physician examines a patient's tongue. Lithograph by Charles Vernier, 1853.
  • A hospital physician asks a patient about his drinking, the patient replies whatever is on offer. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • A woman doctor, perhaps a midwife, diagnosing pregnancy in a young woman: her dismayed parents are in the background. Mezzotint, 1778.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he sees her. Stipple engraving by G. Graham, 1793, after B. West.
  • William Pitt the younger consults the doctor John Bull on his failing health. Coloured aquatint, 1798.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he sees her. Stipple engraving by G. Graham, 1793, after B. West.
  • A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
  • A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.
  • A physician rushes into an operating theatre, exclaiming that there has been an error in diagnosis; unfortunately, the patient is already lying there, opened up. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Pencil drawing.
  • A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.
  • A naked woman lies stretched out on the doctor's couch; she has swallowed a two sou piece; with two other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction, 1910.
  • A working class patient misunderstanding his doctor's diagnosis of acne as the illness being caused by his having been to Hackney. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • 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.
  • A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • The sick tsar Alexander III attended by Pobedonostsev, head of the Russian Orthodox church, Tolstoy and the mascot of the French republic; representing the difference between Russia's internal problems and the enthusiasm of France following the Franco-Russian alliance. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1891.