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  • An old labourer consulting a doctor about his aches and pains. Wood engraving by B. Thomas, 1912.
  • An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.
  • An exhausted nurse who has been looking after her patient for many hours asks when she may go to bed, the patient's mother retorts that she thought she was a trained nurse. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill.
  • A Scotsman protests to his doctor that he should not have to pay for his presence during the period in which he was delirious. Reproduction of a drawing by P. Fraser, 1920.
  • A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
  • Cats in human dress playing a variety of games, including arm wrestling and tug of war. Colour woodcut by Kunimasa IV, 1870s.
  • The female mascot of the French republic asks a chemist if he cannot dissociate the compacting of the Triple Alliance. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1895.
  • Cats in human dress playing a variety of games, including arm wrestling and tug of war. Colour woodcut by Kunimasa IV, 1870s.
  • Information on what to do if an HIV test is positive representing one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • A doctor meets an old Scottish convalescent who bemoans the cost of health care. Wood engraving, 1914.
  • A neighbour checking on an old sick man and enquiring about what the doctor has said, the old man retorts that he has recommended exercise. Wood engraving by G. King, 1907.
  • A man remarking to his friend, while out hunting, that he has put on weight; the other replies he is simply following doctor's orders. Wood engraving by G.D. Armour, 1899.
  • A country vicar visiting a family where a child has been suffering from scarlet fever. Wood engraving after C. Shepperson.
  • A crossword fanatic ringing up a doctor in the middle of the night to find the answer to a clue. Line block after D.L. Ghilchilp, 1925.
  • British politicians as acrobats at a fair: performances by Lord John Russell balancing on a pole inscribed "Irish corporation billl...", Daniel O'Connell swallowing a sword inscribed "Repeal", and Thomas Spring-Rice balancing on his chin an object with a picture of a church, watched by political onlookers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
  • Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.
  • Misunderstanding between a doctor and his working-class patient, who has swallowed the leeches he prescribed. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1877.
  • A patient alarmed at his doctor's request that he abstain from alcohol for a month. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1925.
  • An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A patient thanking his dentist for pulling a tooth out and asking can he go and finish reading a magazine in the waiting-room. Reproduction of a drawing after H. Batchelor, 1928.
  • A customer asking for a Christmas box from a dentist that he regularly visits, the dentist retorts he can have a tooth pulled for free. Wood engraving after [L.S.].
  • A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
  • A wealthy ignorant doctor recommending expensive foods and cures to a very poor woman for her sick child. Wood engraving.
  • A country woman suggesting to a lady of means that she encourage the local doctor even though all his previous patients have died. Wood engraving by A.S. Boyd, 1896.
  • A doctor expressing his thanks to a wealthy man for overpaying him, he hopes to pay him back in work. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1894.
  • A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.
  • A medical officer enquires as to the veracity of a Scot's weak heart. Line block after C. Graves, 1919.
  • Sir John Campbell, Attorney General, sits with his wife, Lady Stratheden, who holds up a crown of the peerage. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.