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  • Four messengers are sitting on a wall having a discussion at cross-purposes. Lithograph by H. Daumier.
  • Two men in a ferry on a stormy crossing: a passenger and the ferryman discuss at cross purposes the danger of drowning. Etching, 1803.
  • A physician thinking that a cobbler's use of the title "D.M." means that he is a Doctor of Medicine. Coloured etching.
  • A woman is interrogated by an official who demands her name and status: she says she is a sensitive woman, but he requires a different kind of status, so she suggests that she is a woman of private means. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1828.
  • 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 doctor asking his messenger if he delivered some medicine to one of his patients. Process print after W. Lunt, 1913.
  • A doctor and the wife of his patient talking at cross purposes. Reproduction of a drawing by H.M. Brock, 1921.
  • A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech.
  • A physician is examining a boil on a woman servant's arm, and asks if she has had boils in any other places: she replies that she has, but that there were also Jewish people there. Lithograph after F. Jüttner, 1909.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • A doctor examining a boy patient who is with his mother, recommends abstinence from meat and dairy products: the boy misunderstands the remedy. Wood engraving by JB, 1863.
  • A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • A woman in fine clothes and a large bonnet is invited by a young man to go on a river trip to Richmond-on-Thames. Coloured etching.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • A doctor and his patient talking at cross purposes. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.