Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.

A central circle with four penis-like extensions surrounded by numerous small circles and flower shapes in each corner; one of a series of Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Education about AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.

A doctor explains how to avoid malaria with illustrations: ParaSight F, the rapid test for malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Becton Dickinson, ca. 2000.

A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.

Book of stamps... : If you love a good joke take "Punch".

Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.

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