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  • J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.
  • Three episodes about Joseph Muff - a satirical view of an unscrupulous surgeon. Letterpress and wood engraving, 1842.
  • Evil doctors maltreating a patient. Etching by James Ensor, 1895.
  • A doctor surrounded by four dead bodies writes out a prescription at a table, while to the right a man puts his sword into his scabbard after killing a man; indicating that the pen of the physician is mightier than the sword of the knight. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli.
  • A wife sending her husband away on holiday in order to pursue an affair with a "nerve specialist" who has got the husband out of the way by recommending a change of scene for him. Colour process print, c. 1920.
  • A surgeon apologetically takes a breather during an amputation operation: a bottle of champagne waits in a cooler; a doctor and nurse canoodle while the patient screams. Colour process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • 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.
  • Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, as a doctor admitting that he mislabelled medicine bottles; referring to misgovernment of Ireland and Scotland. Pencil drawing, ca. 180-.
  • An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A doctor is over-interested in a female patient's feet. Lithograph after J-L. Forain, c. 1896.
  • A healthy country squire being administered to by two ruthless doctors. Coloured etching, 1802.
  • A seedy looking intern. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.
  • A physician discovers that the patient to whom he has administered hydrotherapy has developed 'water on the brain'. Lithograph by Brandl, c. 1850.
  • A stockbroker feigning deafness to avoid paying the man who claims to have restored his hearing. Coloured etching, 1786.
  • A Scottish shepherd telling a doctor on the roadside about the death of his wife and how glad he is that he didn't take any of the medicine the doctor had prescribed for his wife. Wood engraving after L. Raven-Hill, 1908.
  • A young woman and her physicians assure each other that she is cured of squinting, but alas she is not. Lithograph, c. 1830-1841.
  • A stockbroker feigning deafness to avoid paying the man who claims to have restored his hearing. Coloured etching, 1786.
  • A physician carries an anonymous, re-usable wreath 'to his clients'. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An emaciated patient protesting to his doctor, who is satisfied with his patient's demise. Watercolour.
  • A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • A female patient sits on her doctor's lap. Lithograph.
  • A gleeful physician closely examines the buttocks of a middle-aged lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An old doctor, about to vaccinate a young lady, leers at her chest; he says he can see two injections that have taken well. Process print by Rousset after J-A. Faivre.
  • An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.
  • A doctor discussing a patient, he boasts to the other doctor that he has prescribed the wrong treatment simply to enhance his own reputation. Wood engraving by J.B.P., 1896.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.