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  • An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
  • An emaciated patient protesting to his doctor, who is satisfied with his patient's demise. Watercolour.
  • A peripatetic medicine vendor entering a house in the Netherlands. Watercolour by R. Craeyvanger, 1866.
  • A peripatetic medicine vendor entering a house in the Netherlands. Watercolour by R. Craeyvanger, 1866.
  • A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Two women tending a child in a messy domestic interior. Aquatint after C. Bega, 1654.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A gouty man startled by death; represented as a skeletal figure wielding an arrow. Mezzotint, 1794.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A patient forcing a doctor to take some of his own medicine. Coloured engraving, 1794.
  • A man, decrepit with gout, helpless in his own home. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two women tending a child in a messy domestic interior. Aquatint after C. Bega, 1654.
  • Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon (?).
  • The alarmist Miss Minifie informing Miss Gunning and her mother of their banishment from the general's house. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
  • A doctor reprimanding an obese patient for not taking his medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1797.
  • A gouty man surrounded by horse-riding accoutrements. Coloured engraving by Maddox after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A man suddenly awakened by two squalling cats. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • 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 from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
  • A pompous physician trying to impress the two ladies he is visiting. Etching, 1804.
  • A man fast asleep with his head back and wig dangling. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A plant (Fittonia argyroneura): leafy plant. Chromolithograph by L. van Houtte, c. 1865.
  • A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A farmer duping a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A man with gout seated at a table drinking with a parson and a woman. Coloured etching.
  • A poor family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.
  • A man with gout seated at a table drinking with a parson and a woman. Coloured etching.
  • A fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.