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  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a young woman, while an old maid prepares gruel for her. Oil painting by Quirin Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A hypochondriac patient consulting a cynical physician: the patient is healthy, but the physician will provide a treatment that will produce some symptoms of ill-health. Pen drawing, 183-(?).
  • Two female patients taking advantage of a young inexperienced doctor's desire to please by taking up too much of his time. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • A physician advising a man not to be depressed by his illness. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A man taking the pulse of another man. Albumen print.
  • A Georgian physician is attending a sick girl; father in the background, mother seated in an armchair in the foreground. Photogravure after G.S. Knowles, 1906.
  • A physician prescribing entertainment as a cure for a young woman's nervous illness. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-E. Jacque.
  • Two physicians outside the bedroom of a desperately sick man: each physician invites the other to enter first. Coloured lithograph by J.B., 18--.
  • An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.
  • A doctor advising a patient that a sea voyage is what he needs to cure him, the patient retorts that he has just returned from one. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • An old physician with a clyster attends to one of his patients. Lithograph by L. Morel-Retz.
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • An anxious patient tells his doctor that he is worried because he has started to discuss cricket with himself. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1934.
  • A doctor diagnosing an ill young man as suffering from lovesickness. Wood engraving by A. Hopkins, 1898.
  • A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • A physician examining the chest of a thin, perhaps tuberculous boy, in the presence of the latter's mother. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.
  • A patient being advised by a doctor not to drink beer in the morning, he retorts by saying there was no brandy available. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1876.
  • A physician watching over a sick child. Photogravure by Goupil, 1893, after L. Fildes.
  • 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.