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  • Sanatorium for consumptives, in rural surroundings. Photomechanical reproduction, 1903.
  • A physician auscultates a lady. Photomechanical reproduction by Jean Plumet, c. 1910.
  • A woman caked in thermal mud at Abano Terme health spa. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
  • A nurse is cajoled by a director. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A therapist overseeing a man caked in thermal mud at Abano Terme health spa. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.
  • Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • An apothecary tells a drug addict to fill in his own prescription. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A customer at a pharmacy makes a verbal gaffe when asking for iodine. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A group of aristocrats visit a young man in hospital. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by P. Hérault, c. 1925.
  • Parasites of the tropical diseases kala-azar and oriental sore. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1921.
  • A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.
  • A pharmacist and his friend discuss the new tax on medicine; with four other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot.
  • A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A naked woman lies stretched out on the doctor's couch; she has swallowed a two sou piece; with two other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction, 1910.
  • 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.
  • A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Photomechanical reproduction by Dawsons after H. Dawson.
  • John Bull being force-fed via a stomach pump, by a queue of people; representing Britain's numerous political problems. Colour photomechanical reproduction after S. Pritchard, 1913.
  • A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Nicolas Copernicus explaining his planetary system to Alexander VI and artists of the Papal court. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by [W.G.] after A. Gerson.
  • A veteran of Hotel des Invalides resists gout on account of his formidable alcohol consumption. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • A butcher's boy describes his ailment to a doctor in terms of cuts of meat. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by Crété after B.A. Rabier, 1903.
  • A young man has no need to find the right key to fit woman's chastity belt, as her Crusader husband has locked it with a combination lock. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • A fashionable lady with her servant in the desert bumps into an elderly doctor and enquires whether the area is good for rheumatism. Colour photomechanical reproduction after L. Thackeray.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • An old vagrant's corpse is stuffed with newspaper after being raided for useful organs by two pipe-smoking, wisecracking surgeons. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A contagiously ill man asks for the bed-pan; the nurse tells him that it will cost ten sous for the risk. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.