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  • Five people looking through various types of spectacles. Colour lithograph by F.S. Delpech after L.L. Boilly.
  • A young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance; she suspects the onset of cholera. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
  • A theatrical performance of a tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient, accompanied by a zany. Etching.
  • World War I: a convalescent soldier in a walking frame is running at speed while smoking a cigarette, endangering an older man and woman. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.
  • A barber shaving a friar; in the left-hand background a monkey and a cat are fighting and squealing. Lithograph by J. Baker.
  • A man dresses a woman's hair. Coloured engraving.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A woman wearing a high wig and protective hood entering into a breakfast parlour and being greeted by another woman wearing an elaborate wig and hat with feathers attached to the back of it; in the background a seated man looks on and a maid-servant brings in a tray of tea things. Mezzotint, 1778.
  • A man resting after a drink; representing good digestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.
  • A young man declines the offer of a mother to play Blind Man's Buff with her four daughters. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Two hunters with hounds have entered a bedroom to summon another hunter whose wife does not want him to leave. Mezzotint, 17--.
  • "No secret remedy": natural solutions to baldness and corns. Lithograph after J. Bahr, 1909.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
  • An episode in the play "The dancing barber" by Charles Selby: Narcissus Fitzfrizzle attending to the hair of Alfred Fitzfrolic in the rooms of the latter. Etching by R. Cruikshank.
  • A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: nurses carrying evening drinks; others fall asleep around the stove. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • A nurse gives a man an enema. Colour line engraving by C.J.D. Eisen after himself, 1762.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.
  • Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.
  • A physician thinking that a cobbler's use of the title "D.M." means that he is a Doctor of Medicine. Coloured etching.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: staff, visitors and patients enjoying a concert, the singer stands on a table. Lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A doctor asking his patient's wife if she can possibly give the sick man some tablets, she retorts that she will make sure its possible. Reproduction of a drawing by A.E. Bestall, 1922.
  • A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.