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  • A young woman and her physicians assure each other that she is cured of squinting, but alas she is not. Lithograph, c. 1830-1841.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A doctor asks how his patient is feeling, the patient (a precocious child) retorts condescendingly. Reproduction of a drawing by C. A. Shepperson, 1921.
  • A doctor unexpectedly visiting a patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • An old labourer consulting a doctor about his aches and pains. Wood engraving by B. Thomas, 1912.
  • A doctor telling one of his jovial patients that he would probably make jokes on his death bed, the patient retorts he would - being his last chance. Wood engraving by P. May, 1901.
  • Advice for men on treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1949.
  • A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.
  • A patient trying to convince his unsympathetic doctor that a sprained neck is a worse condition than a broken one. Wood engraving by G. King, 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.
  • A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A gleeful physician closely examines the buttocks of a middle-aged lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A doctor takes the pulse of a patient. Etching by M. Österreich, 1750, after P.L. Ghezzi.
  • A man holding a pack of 'Jubol' medicine tells clyster-wielding physicians that they are now obsolete. Wood engraving by Henriot, c. 1885.
  • The good Samaritan: a physician on his way to the opera stops to attend a sick gypsy child; father and siblings dressed in rags in the background. Photogravure after W. Small, 1899.
  • A physician auscultates a lady. Photomechanical reproduction by Jean Plumet, c. 1910.
  • Doctors disputing, the patient is ignored. Etching by D.N. Chodowiecki, 1781.
  • An unsympathetic doctor giving a patient a prescription, telling her it doesn't matter whether she takes it or not. Reproduction of a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1931.
  • A physician examining the chest of a thin, perhaps tuberculous, boy, in the presence of the latter's mother. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.
  • A doctor and his patient laugh during a consultation; behind, a nun stands by the door. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • 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 doctor trying to reassure a patient by informing him that he himself had recovered from the same illness, the dismayed patient points out that he had a different doctor. Wood engraving by G.L. Stamper, 1899.
  • A doctor attends a sick patient (who has the head of a railway engine); representing an industrial dispute regarding railway transport. Pen drawing by C.H. Phelp, 1919.
  • A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.