Sex-workers are transported in a cart through the streets of Paris to a hospital for people with sexually transmitted diseases. Engraving by J.C. Le Vasseur after Etienne Jeaurat.

A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.

A sick old man with the woes of old age. Engraving by B. Lépicié, 1745, after Etienne Jeaurat.

A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.

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