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  • A cynical doctor describes the contents of his new cough mixture. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, 1844.
  • An exotic doctor magnetises a young woman; her husband looks on. Lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • An exotic doctor magnetises a young woman; her husband looks on. Lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann.
  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured engraving.
  • A patient wonders where he should 'cough up' (his spittle); the doctor responds that if he means money, then into his hand. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A group of men in leather stand smiling amidst some trees with the message in French: "AIDS: it is important to be together"; an advertisement for AIDES, one of the most important European HIV/AIDS voluntary organisations. Colour lithograph by Emmanuelle Barbaras, 1995.
  • A parade of wretched, smallpocked people walk away from a doctor who counts his money. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A boy and a girl facing two fighting dogs. Engraving by C. de Passe, 159-.
  • The manager of a hotel discusses the extermination of bedbugs with a lady. Wood engraving by 'Henriot' (H. Maigrot).
  • Robert Macaire as a doctor selling, at a so-called 'free consultation', bottles of water for twenty francs each and glasses of water for 10 centimes each. Lithograph by H. Daumier, c. 1835.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Men in swimming costumes. Colour process print after A. Massonet, 192-.
  • Men in swimming costumes. Colour process print after A. Massonet, 192-.
  • A naked woman being embraced by a man in a white line drawing by JCD with the words "SIDA" crossed out and in red: "l'Amour plus fort"'; an advertisement by Mutualité Française. Colour lithograph.
  • AIDS prevention advert by Mutualité Française
  • Men engaged in many trades and professions. Coloured etching.
  • Men engaged in many trades and professions. Coloured etching.
  • Men engaged in many trades and professions. Coloured etching.
  • Men engaged in many trades and professions. Coloured etching.
  • Men engaged in many trades and professions. Coloured etching.
  • George Alexander (Gratton), a black boy with white markings. Engraving by P.R. Cooper, 1809, after D. Orme.
  • Tuberculosis patients lying on their beds in a crowded tuberculosis hospital; advertising a tombola in aid of tuberculosis sufferers in L'Hérault, France. Colour lithograph, ca. 1933.