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  • A fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A surgeon tending a woman who has just fainted after bloodletting; she is supported by female members of her family. Engraving by Garlieb after Eglon Hendrik van der Neer.
  • An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life; presented surrounded by assorted chastising demons. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • A sick man being visited by a reassuring friend. Wood engraving by H.B.
  • A gouty man drinking wine and playing the cello; the pain is represented by a devil burning his knee. Etching, 1785, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A flowering pelargonium plant (Pelargonium T̀he Baron'). Coloured zincograph by J. Andrews.
  • A gouty patient in his room full of unproductive doctors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • A leafy plant (Chlorophytum elatum), related to the spider plant. Chromolithograph by L. van Houtte, c. 1875.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • Coleus plant (Solenostemon scutellarioides): leafy stem. Chromolithograph by L. van Houtte, c. 1877.
  • Two women leave the room as a young man holds the hands of a girl and inclines his head towards her. Engraving by A. Birrel after T. Stothard.
  • A woman sewing in a pleasant domestic interior, her baby sleeps sweetly in its cradle. Aquatint by J. Sartain after G. Dou.
  • The birth of Saint Edmund, he is being nursed by a midwife while his mother rests in bed and is aided by assistants, 1433. Aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.
  • A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A love sick man taking some of Doctor Hymen's pills to try and cure himself. Watercolour painting.
  • A physician feeling the pulse of a seated woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A physician feeling the pulse of a seated woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Four doctors discussing the case of Sir Toby Bumper, while he is recovering in bed from too much alcohol. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A physician feeling the pulse of a seated woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A physician feeling the pulse of a seated woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.