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  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • University College Hospital, London: the outpatients' waiting room and dispensary. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, comes with a sceptre to the Virgin. Tinted lithograph by N.J. Strixner, 1821, after School of Meister Wilhelm.
  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • Doctor Saltinbanco, a medicine vendor, attacking one of his clients for non-payment. Coloured etching.
  • A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, seated, with a jug near his left hand. Wood engraving.
  • A physician stirring medicine in a cup which is refused by a repulsed little girl, her mother stands behind her smiling. Mezzotint by J. Jervis, 1842, after W. White.
  • Five men indoors round a table smoking and playing backgammon, behind a man and women talk. Etching by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade, 1670.
  • Petronius, bishop of Bologna, with Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Dominic. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Costa, 1502.
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
  • A Moorish man with wife. Gouache drawing.
  • The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the infant Christ; the latter sits in the lap of the Virgin Mary, who sits next to Joseph. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after P. Tibaldi.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: hospital corridor. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Doctor Slop, having fallen off his horse, is greeted by Obadiah. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • A naked man with hemiplegia walking with a stick: (above) from the side, (below) from the front. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A gouty patient consulting his physician. Etching after E.A. Abbey, 1891.
  • A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians. Watercolour by T. Müller.
  • Boer War: the convalescent Lord Edward Cecil saluting an armed guard at Mafeking (Mahikeng). Halftone, c. 1900, after S.P.Hall, after a photograph.
  • The marriage of Mary and Joseph. Etching after C. Maratta.
  • Doctor Diafoirus, a physician from Molière's play Le malade imaginaire. Coloured etching.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience. Colour engraving by J. Burnet after D. Wilkie, 1806.
  • A Japanese man heavily laden with firewood crosses a wooden plank over a river, upstream a waterfall. Gouache painting.
  • A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • A blind beggar holds out his hat for money. Woodcut and colour mezzotint by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1757.
  • A physician examining urine. Engraving by A. Walker, 1763, after A. van Ostade.
  • A blind musician holding a uilleann pipe or pastoral bagpipe. Etching attributed to G. Grattan.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, seated, wearing a red coat and tricorn hat, holding a pipe and a stick. Watercolour painting.