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  • A physician talking to his patient's wife on his way out after visiting him. Pen drawing by J. Ulrich.
  • Death as an apothecary's assistant making up medicines with a mortar and pestle for the apothecary attending a female patient who sits by the fireside. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson or one of his followers.
  • An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A young (homoeopathic?) physician converses with a young woman on moral and physical matters. Coloured engraving.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An operation to collect eggs from a woman for in vitro fertilisation. Lithograph by Virginia Powell, 1997.
  • A woman recommending Pildoras Hermosina as a remedy for female maladies. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
  • A physician is examining a boil on a woman servant's arm, and asks if she has had boils in any other places: she replies that she has, but that there were also Jewish people there. Lithograph after F. Jüttner, 1909.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • A sick lady addressing her husband, and being nursed by three women. Mezzotint by V. Green after E. Penny, 1774.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • A woman with a pendent tumour over her right ear. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 183-.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
  • A sick lady addressing her husband, and being nursed by three women. Mezzotint by V. Green after E. Penny, 1774.
  • A young woman being attended by a (homoeopathic?) physician. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A physician feeling the pulse of a seated woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A woman, reclining, with a large tumour on her right breast. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • A woman (Leang Yen?) with a large tumour on her right hand, reclining and concealing her face. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838.
  • A woman, reclining, with a large tumour on her left breast. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • A woman with a tumour in her right breast which is expanding over her trunk. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 183-.
  • A physician molests a young lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A distraught bare-breasted woman with staring eyes, straw in her hair and chained wrists, representing madness. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1775, after R.E. Pine.
  • A woman (Le Sanying) with tumours on her forehead and under her left ear. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838.