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  • A nurse carrying a bowl and candle-stick. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J. Kenny Meadows, 1840.
  • A female gipsy breast feeding her child. Mezzotint by H. Meyer, 1817, after D. Wilkie.
  • A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
  • Two men performing a show to an audience at a public house, using sign language. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • A group of physicians wrongly diagnosing the case of a pregnant woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1803.
  • Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
  • Mr. Lambkin walking down a street on his way to court a lady, unknown to him a placard has been stuck on to his back declaring his intentions to all. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A nurse carrying a bowl and candle-stick. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J. Kenny Meadows, 1840.
  • A young man weeps in grief by the death bed of a young woman. Line engraving by J. Brown, 1846, after J. Barker.
  • A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • A juror protesting that the subject of a coroner's inquest is alive; showing the danger of blind faith in doctors. Coloured aquatint by F, 1826.
  • Mr. Lambkin dressing up in front of a mirror. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.
  • An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by A.M.D. after R. Newton.
  • A fashionably dressed lady meets her doctor in the park and informs him that she feels much better since he went away. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A man breathing in nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and a man exhibiting its exhilarating effects. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • A woman refusing to get into a cab believing she will catch smallpox, the driver humorously reassures her. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1863.
  • A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a young woman, her concerned mother is seated opposite him, with a servant in the background. Engraving by J.H. Barker.
  • People suffering from seasickness on board a steam boat; off Margate a man asks the steward for a brandy. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • Three interlinked scenes of a fisherman with his nets, Cupid pointing an arrow at a young couple who are contemplating marriage and a physician. Etching.
  • A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.
  • A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.
  • An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • Snow Hill Buildings, London, headquarters of Burroughs Wellcome Co.: interior, 1885. Pencil drawing.