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  • A doctor performing a paracentesis on an obese man, whose abdomen is tapped ejecting a fountain into a bucket. Coloured etching by Ull.
  • Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton.
  • Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.
  • Boniface consulting a doctor about the fullness of his stomach. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby, 1827.
  • A doctor reading a newspaper article on the prospect of a decrease in influenza - his wife hopes for the reverse. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • La Salpêtrière / par Georges Guillain et P. Mathieu.
  • A patient consulting his friendly doctor. Pen drawing by J. Ulrich.
  • Two ladies visiting a doctor. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • A vexed doctor on horseback. Etching, 1801, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • La Salpêtrière / par Georges Guillain et P. Mathieu.
  • La Salpêtrière / par Georges Guillain et P. Mathieu.
  • Two doctors arguing over the bed of a dying patient. Engraving by P.F. Tardieu after J.B. Oudry.
  • Two doctors arguing over the bed of a dying patient. Engraving by P.F. Tardieu after J.B. Oudry.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen from an elderly female patient who stands beside him, in his elaborate surgery. Colour process print after G. Dou.
  • A physician lecturing from a book to four students in a church. Heliotype.
  • A physician holding the hand of a female patient in a scene from Molière's play L'amour médecin. Line block by Yves & Barret after L. Leloir.
  • A stockbroker feigning deafness to avoid paying the man who claims to have restored his hearing. Coloured etching, 1786.
  • A vicar asking a woman if she likes her new female doctor, the woman retorts that she prefers male doctors and finds them more genteel. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • A group of doctors fighting. Stipple engraving, 1785.
  • A stockbroker feigning deafness to avoid paying the man who claims to have restored his hearing. Coloured etching, 1786.
  • A Chinese (?) physician giving a sick patient a large bowl containing medicine (?). Wood engraving by G.M.
  • A group of doctors fighting. Stipple engraving, 1785.
  • Two physicians are reconciled by another, overseen by a duck-like parody of the Holy Ghost. Lithograph by F.E. Regamey after himself.
  • A woman dying in the arms of her family, an unhappy doctor leaves the room realising that it is his final payment. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1786.
  • Dr. John Burges, on tiptoe outside a building in Warwick Lane. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1795.
  • A woman dying in the arms of her family, an unhappy doctor leaves the room realising that it is his final payment. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1786.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • A doctor in a strange hat. Watercolour, 1815.