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  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey].
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A dozen scenes presenting the manifold aspects of a family doctor's personality. Wood engraving by M.B.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A country doctor riding a horse. Mezzotint by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, ca. 1900 (?).
  • A country doctor riding a horse. Mezzotint by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, ca. 1900 (?).
  • An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.
  • A doctor passing by the cottage of a needy patient, shouting reassurance on his way to hunt. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.
  • A man on a bicycle with a physician riding pillion; advertising the film "When father fetched the doctor". Colour lithograph, 191-.
  • A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, which she views suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.
  • A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.
  • An apothecary weeping at the grave of his late most prosperous and prevalent patient. Coloured aquatint by G.M. Woodward, 1801.
  • A doctor placing his hand on the head of a sick boy, outside a country cottage. Photogravure after R. Hedley, 1898.
  • An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor's bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery". Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910.
  • Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.
  • Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.
  • The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.
  • A seated Greek woman on an obstetrical stool being held in position by her husband while giving birth aided by a midwife, another attendant dresses the first baby. Line engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Maréchal.
  • A seated Greek woman on an obstetrical stool being held in position by her husband while giving birth aided by a midwife, another attendant dresses the first baby. Line engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Maréchal.