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  • A doctor attempting to talk to an ill child and being completely misunderstood. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Baumer, 1926.
  • The clyster is prepared for a glutton. Colour line engraving by J.J. Leveau after himself, 1762.
  • A dentist looking at a tooth of a very attractive female patient. Coloured lithograph.
  • A woman seated at a table, and underneath a parrot in a cage suspended from the ceiling, unaware that her wig has been set alight by a mischievous monkey; another woman screams in horror as she enters through a door, in the right foreground a cat shields her kittens from a barking dog. Etching.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • A domestic remedy: a woman applies a hot iron to her husband's back while their two children look on. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man holding an enormous razor jumps in fright upon looking in a mirror and seeing his dressing table taking on a human form. Etching by W.C.W.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • A motley crew surround a dead man who is being administered a late enema. Lithograph by Lemoine, c. 1900.
  • A man with long thin legs and a woman with a long thin body. Coloured etching by C V. after C C.
  • An old lady asking her doctor about 'Violet Ray', referring to ultra violet rays. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1925.
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • A monk kissing a nun on the mouth; an open book (Bible?), a birch rod and a jug at their feet. Watercolour by M. Anderson (Cynicus).
  • A woman trader at the Halles market in Paris defends her conduct in conversation with an official as another woman looks on in amusement. Lithograph by N. Charlet, 1825.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • An old gallant is hosed down by two interfering young men; thus preventing any over-heating of the old lecher's heart. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Bach.
  • A man who has rented a haunted castle is asked to shave the ghost of a deceased barber. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1861.
  • A dentist being restrained in a chair, and terrified by a patient who is attempting to get his own back.Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
  • A doctor takes the temperature of a gloomy patient. Reproduction of a drawing by G. Jennis, 1919.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • Some people climb up the steps to the top of a slide, others slide down the other side in couples. Lithograph, 18--.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A precocious child telling a dentist exactly what is wrong with her teeth. Process print after L. Baumer, 1936.
  • Two maids confer on whether to 'refresh' a sick man even further by putting cold water into his enema. Lithograph by Cham, c. 1840.
  • Two men at a fireside table taking snuff; remarks on snuff-taking below. Coloured etching, c. 1825.
  • A young man puts his head through the window of a barber's shop where glass has been replaced by paper; the barber inside responds by putting his head through another paper pane: a man and two women walk by. Coloured etching by A. Mills, 1806.
  • A portly, well-to-do physician leaves his house, while his wife cavorts in the window with a young dandy. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1832.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching after J. Callot.
  • A optician gives an old lady an eye test, she asks him to read it for her as her eyesight is not very good. Reproduction of a drawing after E.H. Shepard, 1926.