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  • 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.
  • Two female doctors discussing a patient. Reproduction of a drawing after G. King, 1907.
  • The painter Sir George Hayter watches Lord Melbourne making a study of John Bull as Prince Albert paints in oils and Queen Victoria engages in watercolours. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • A doctor diagnosing an ill young man as suffering from lovesickness. Wood engraving by A. Hopkins, 1898.
  • A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • A doctor asking a child patient if he would like to follow a career in medicine when he was older, the child's mother retorts that he couldn't as he was unable to do anybody any harm. Wood engraving by C. Shepperson?, 1910.
  • A doctor asking his messenger if he delivered some medicine to one of his patients. Process print after W. Lunt, 1913.
  • A town gentleman visiting a village dentist and enquiring if he uses gas, the dentist retorts he does but prefers daylight. Process print after G. Du Maurier, 1895.
  • A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
  • Histoires de mecs en couple. No.2, Accident avec un extra : que faire pour soi, pour son couple / ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • Histoires de mecs en couple. No.3, L'un est open, l'autre pas. Vous en discutez quand? / ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • A doctor trying to reassure a patient by informing him that he himself had recovered from the same illness, the dismayed patient points out that he had a different doctor. Wood engraving by G.L. Stamper, 1899.
  • Histoires de mecs en couple. No.3, L'un est open, l'autre pas. Vous en discutez quand? / ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • A man being vetted by an insurance salesman. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1896.
  • Histoires de mecs en couple. No.2, Accident avec un extra : que faire pour soi, pour son couple / ENIPSE, Équipe nationale d'intervention en prévention et santé pour les entreprises.
  • Crimean War, England: caricature possibly a play on class and language or corruption within the Crimean Fund Office connected with Florence Nightingale. Wood engraving by N.
  • A convalescing patient complaining to his wife about his doctor's bills. Process print after S. Wood, 1911.
  • A hypochondriac tells her doctor that she has a pain in her heart whilst clutching the wrong side of her chest. Reproduction of a drawing after Beauchamp, 1932.
  • A fashionable doctor's wife bids him goodbye for the weekend and tells him to stay away from the nasty influenza. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Pegram, 1934.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre. Coloured lithograph.
  • A patient complains to a visitor that he does not discuss with his doctor how he feels for fear of discouraging him. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1915.
  • A doctor attempting to talk to an ill child and being completely misunderstood. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Baumer, 1926.
  • A mother and her five delighted children turned away from their dentist's at Easter because he has toothache. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1874.
  • A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.
  • An ignorant young doctor telling poverty-stricken people to feed and look after their children properly. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A dentist telling his patient in the middle of an operation that he has nothing to fear from revolutions as dentists are always spared. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Raven-Hill, 1924.
  • A patient asking her doctor his political leanings, he retorts that it varies - depending on who he is treating. Wood engraving after A.T. Smith.
  • A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • A small boy at an apothecary's shop. Reproduction of a lithograph by A. Holswilder, c. 1890.
  • A lady, who has her pulse taken by a doctor, has an apparition of death, dressed in cloak and crown, throwing a spear at her. Wood engraving.