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  • Lord Durham, surrounded by schoolboy politicians, is victimised in a game and jostled by Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • 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 quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A doctor and the wife of his patient talking at cross purposes. Reproduction of a drawing by H.M. Brock, 1921.
  • Beneath the broken equestrian statue of William III a group of robed politicians, including the Duke of Wellington, attack with scrolls Morrison the Mayor of Dublin, who collapses. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • Lord Brougham, a bully, picks on Lord Melbourne while a girl in a bonnet summons an elderly woman with the face of the Duke of Wellington. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.
  • John Bull about to be bled by three doctors; representing Britain's budget manipulated by the cabinet. Coloured etching by J. Phillips?, 1830.
  • A school medical officer trying to give a child an eye-test in front of a classroom of children. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1909.
  • A doctor telling an overweight patient (who mishears him) that he needs to cut out his apéritif not his appendix. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1923.
  • King George IV and entourage laden with provisions, about to embark from Brighton in the Royal Yacht; representing the extravagant monarch's distressed retreat from England at the time of the Queen's trial. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1820.
  • A terrified patient misunderstanding his doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after G.S. Dixon, 1924.
  • An unsympathetic doctor giving a patient a prescription, telling her it doesn't matter whether she takes it or not. Reproduction of a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1931.
  • A dentist trying to persuade a little boy that he is not going to hurt him, the child is not convinced. Reproduction after a drawing by E.H. Shepard, 1925.
  • A doctor giving a diagnosis of tonsillitis to a patient who is an author, the patient replies it will be useful for his next novel. Reproduction of a drawing after Beauchamp, 1927.
  • Daniel O'Connell sits at a lectern desk with a birch inscribed "repeal" teaching a row of school boys. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • "The Artful Dodger" the Marquess of Normanby, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, introduces "Oliver" Lord Morpeth, Irish Secretary, to "Fagin" Daniel O'Connell. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
  • Joanna Southcott the prophetess exposing herself to three physicians in order to validate her pregnancy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1814.
  • Joanna Southcott the prophetess exposing herself to three physicians in order to validate her pregnancy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1814.
  • A soldier being interviewed for the medical corps who doesn't know where his spleen is. Wood engraving, 1912.
  • A rural man talking to his physician in the street. Drawing by S. Wood.
  • A well known doctor giving a prescription to a patient and telling him if it doesn't work to come back. Reproduction of a drawing after G.L. Stampa, 1926.
  • An ill man throwing a tantrum and a hot-water bottle after hearing his rubber shares have gone down. Process print after S. Wood, 1912.
  • The Lord Mayor and officers of the Irish corporations are hustled through a door by conservatives Sir Robert Peel, Sir Henry Hardinge and Lord Stanley among others. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • A sailor running away from the ships dentist who is attempting to pull out one of his teeth. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • Il a envie d'arrêter le préservatif, lui aussi / INPES, Institut national de prévention et d'éducation pour la santé, Ministère de la Santé, de la Jeunesse, des Sports et de la Vie Associative.
  • The symposium described in the Symposion of Plato: the drunken Alcibiades enters on the left. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.