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  • A group of physicians having stormy discussions in an elaborately decorated room. Engraving by A.H. Payne after J. Geyer.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1824.
  • A besotted physician asks his young patient to cure him of his heartache. Coloured lithograph after C. Philipon, c. 1830.
  • Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.
  • An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by A.M.D. after R. Newton.
  • A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.
  • A vicar asking a woman if she likes her new female doctor, the woman retorts that she prefers male doctors and finds them more genteel. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A swollen lethargic patient with ten physicians seated around a table on which are axes and a halter; symbolising England's government and the need for reform. Engraving, 1756.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • A Chinese (?) physician giving a sick patient a large bowl containing medicine (?). Wood engraving by G.M.
  • Two physicians are reconciled by another, overseen by a duck-like parody of the Holy Ghost. Lithograph by F.E. Regamey after himself.
  • 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. Aquatint by F. Jukes, 1803, after S. Collings.
  • 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. Aquatint by F. Jukes, 1803, after S. Collings.
  • Dr Hamilton examining a child's eyes outside the surgery surrounded by waiting people.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • A doctor in a strange hat. Watercolour, 1815.
  • An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London, in 1841. Wood engraving.
  • A Japanese physician applying moxa (a substance produced from leaves of various wormwoods) as a cautery: igniting it on the skin of a patient's back. Wood engraving.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.
  • A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • Country folk pushing a lawyer, a physician and a gouty vicar in wheelbarrows out of their village. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819.
  • Walter Reed and yellow fever / by Howard A. Kelly.
  • A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained and bedbound. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1833.
  • William Battier and two officers of the Tenth Hussars having their heads examined by six phrenological practitioners. Coloured etching by L. Marks, 1824.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.