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  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchn̤ takes cinchona. Oil painting by a Roman painter.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 1: the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant. Oil painting.
  • The genius of painting, preferring sacred to secular history, brings to the public the history of Samson, and writes a dedication to E. Colbert. Etching by J. Gillet and F. Verdier after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 1: the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant. Oil painting by a Roman painter.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 3: Cardinal de Lugo orders the use of cinchona in the hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Oil painting.
  • Historical portraits ... : the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ... / the portraits chosen by Emery Walker ... with an introduction on the history of portraiture in England.
  • An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life; presented surrounded by assorted chastising demons. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.
  • Mr. Lambkin dressing up in front of a mirror. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe, behind him hangs a portrait. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade.
  • An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
  • A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family. Mezzotint.
  • Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
  • A wealthy patient falls over having a tooth extracted with vigour by a fashionable dentist. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
  • A young male physician holding the hand of a female patient, a squirrel is seated next to her chewing. Mezzotint.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Two angry medical practitioners arguing about opposing methods in front of a gouty (?) patient. Coloured engraving, 1787.
  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.
  • A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • A physician arguing with his wealthy patient who is bed, a visitor appears at the door. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Oil painting by Pieter van Halen, 1661.
  • The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Oil painting by Pieter van Halen, 1661.
  • The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Oil painting by Pieter van Halen, 1661.