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  • A barber cutting a customer while shaving him; the customer retaliates by biting the barber's finger. Coloured aquatint by G. & C. Hunt after M. Egerton.
  • A man pulling a doctor down the path to his house to see his wife whom he thinks is ill because she doesn't want to go to the sales. Process print after J. Lee, 1934.
  • A dentist asks an old patient how long his tooth has been hurting him, the patient replies twenty years. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1931.
  • An anxious patient tells his doctor that he is worried because he has started to discuss cricket with himself. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1934.
  • A country gentleman surprised at the cost of his doctor's fees. Reproduction of a drawing, 1921.
  • A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.
  • An Englishman seated in a Parisian coiffeur's salon having his hair dressed by a mischievous Frenchman. Engraving by J. Caldwell, 1770, after I. Collet.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • A young man outside a pharmacy and unfortunately bumping into his creditor. Aquatint by D.T. Egerton after himself.
  • A woman seated at her dressing table having her hair brushed by a maid. Coloured lithograph.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • A man and a woman taking tea in the garden of a refreshment house: she asks whether he takes suger, he replies in sentimental terms. Etching attributed to R. Seymour.
  • A hunter standing in front of a fire shaves himself using the soup as shaving water (?). Etching by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
  • A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.
  • A barber shaving a man. Mezzotint.
  • A poor man suffering from indigestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a queue of hospital visitors with a nurse collecting money for the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses arguing and going to various places to cry. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A patient alarmed at his doctor's request that he abstain from alcohol for a month. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1925.
  • A well known doctor giving a prescription to a patient and telling him if it doesn't work to come back. Reproduction of a drawing after G.L. Stampa, 1926.
  • Three lecherous men gather round a pretty street seller, admiring her rather than her wares. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E. Pigal.
  • A small boy shaving a donkey. Coloured lithograph.
  • A father-to-be is being reassured by the family physician. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1928.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from his patient. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, ca. 1832.
  • A posterior view of a medical student wearing a surgical gown untidily tied up. Coloured pen drawing by E. Griset.