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  • An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
  • Four men sit indoors smoking round a barrel-table, others drink by the fireplace. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
  • A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
  • An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
  • A man sits by a barrel-table smoking his pipe, behind others play cards and a woman enters the room. Engraving by P. Chenu after D. Teniers.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • Two men play cards at a table as others watch, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1771, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A man is held down by four men in a bedchamber while a man castrates him with a knife. Etching.
  • A hypochondriac imagining himself being prepared for burial. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1833.
  • A hypochondriac imagining himself being prepared for burial. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1833.
  • A hypochondriac imagining himself being prepared for burial. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1833.
  • An old woman soothes a wound on Don Quixote's back. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A man in bedclothes prising insects (?) off his bed-curtains with a fork into a saucepan. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Jules Grévy takes the pulse of Marshal Macmahon, who lies sick in bed with a priest and another man; they are choking from the fumes of their burning bed; Léon Gambetta emerges from behind the scenes carrying a clyster. Coloured wood engraving, 1879.
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : what it has done : what it will do : [the broken jug] / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : what it has done : what it will do : [the broken jug] / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : what it has done : what it will do : [the broken jug] / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : what it has done : what it will do : [the broken jug] / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Burying the placenta, C16 Chinese painted book illustration
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • The treatment of wounded soldiers in a ward of a hospital. Drawing by Benjamin Zix, ca. 1805/1811.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • Acute pathologies, infantile diarrhoea, Chinese lithograph