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  • Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.
  • A Scottish doctor informing a northen farmer of the perils of consulting a southern doctor including recommending red wine rather than whiskey. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1885.
  • A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.
  • Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
  • A boy telling his aunt the advantages of placing her name on the Social Register. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
  • An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.
  • A doctor is dismayed to discover that his patient has been eating animal feed when he had recommended animal food. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1879.
  • A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • A country doctor enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A doctor reading out a letter from a dissatisfied patient to his wife over breakfast. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1878.
  • A doctor reading the 'Lancet' in a gentleman's club: another member states it is boring, and suggests they play billiards which the doctor would find more boring. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.
  • A health inspector dismayed to discover that a mother thinks her child has been vaccinated because he has been butted by a cow. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1877.
  • A man with bronchitis asks a chemist for a remedy. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • An old lady in a pharmacy misunderstanding the use of a thermometer: she thinks the ambient temperature will adjust to match a setting on the thermometer, rather than vice versa. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1887.
  • A man commenting on the beauty of women at a ball, his friend (a dentist) implies that the perfection of their smiles is due to him. Wood engraving after C. Keene, c.1882.
  • One country doctor asks another to assist him in a post mortem on the corpse of one of his successfully-treated patients. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.
  • A dentist demonstrating the adaptability of false teeth to an apprehensive patient by taking out his own. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1877.
  • An invalid in bed groaning at his servant's grammatical error. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • A hospital physician asks a patient about his drinking, the patient replies whatever is on offer. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • A doctor reprimanding the drunkenness of the village grave-digger, who retorts that he does not criticise the doctor for his mistakes - which he has to bury. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1879.
  • A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.
  • A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.