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  • An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
  • Mentally ill people at the Charité hospital sitting and looking at a piece of apparatus (camera?). Photogravure by C. Block after G. Moreau de Tours.
  • An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
  • A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.
  • A young man declines the offer of a mother to play Blind Man's Buff with her four daughters. Coloured lithograph.
  • A young sailor has returned to his aged parents after running away to sea. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after Joseph Clark.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat, the terrified patient looks on. Aquatint by F. Jukes, 1803, after S. Collings.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat, the terrified patient looks on. Aquatint by F. Jukes, 1803, after S. Collings.
  • A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of a country squire; the smug doctor receives a drink from the butler while his disgruntled patient's medicine is prepared by the maid. Lithograph by W. Hunt, 1825, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A love sick man taking some of Doctor Hymen's pills to try and cure himself. Watercolour painting.
  • Four doctors discussing the case of Sir Toby Bumper, while he is recovering in bed from too much alcohol. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Four doctors discussing the case of Sir Toby Bumper, while he is recovering in bed from too much alcohol. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • 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.
  • A doctor and his patient talking at cross purposes. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • Mr. Lambkin dressing up in front of a mirror. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A man vaccinating a child surrounded by its mother, family and other children waiting to be vaccinated. Process print after a lithograph (?) after a painting by L. Boilly, 1807.
  • An ill man taking a gargling mixture for a sore throat. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M. Egerton, 1827.
  • 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.
  • A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A haggard old woman taking a large file to the corns on her feet. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800, after himself.
  • A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.
  • A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.
  • A toddler prepares to take the risk of trying to walk across the room towards its father or grandfather. Wood engraving by A. Bellenger after Gaetano Chierici.