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  • A misunderstanding between a doctor his patient and her daughter. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A nobleman and an alderman sit at a table neggotiating a marriage settlement between the son of the former and the daughter of the latter. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
  • A disgruntled ill man taking a large dose of medicine. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A woman prepares to bathe a baby aided by an older girl who pours water into a bowl. Engraving after A. Chisholm.
  • A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Coloured lithograph by W. Hunt.
  • The countess's levee: a barber dresses her hair while she converses with Silvertongue, her lawyer. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • 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 nurse gives a man an enema. Colour line engraving by C.J.D. Eisen after himself, 1762.
  • A man suffering from indigestion; suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after A. Crowquill.
  • A nobleman and his friends drink with prostitutes in a brothel. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A man suffering from indigestion; suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after A. Crowquill.
  • A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Coloured lithograph by W. Hunt.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • 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.
  • Surgeon Major and Mrs Gunning. Photograph.
  • A young man declines the offer of a mother to play Blind Man's Buff with her four daughters. Coloured lithograph.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A gouty man suffering with a painfully enlarged foot; presented by demons prodding it with arrows. Coloured etching, 1814.
  • Abraham Francen, apothecary, seated by a window, gazing at a print or drawing. Etching by or after Rembrandt.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • A young sailor has returned to his aged parents after running away to sea. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after Joseph Clark.
  • A nurse attempts to wake up one of her patients who has just died. Wood engraving by G. King, 1906.
  • A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
  • 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.