An eye specialist (Monsieur Macaire) trying to convince a patient to spend more money on treatment. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier after C.  Philipon.

Robert Macaire mesmerises an old lady in front of an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier.

Robert Macaire as a doctor selling, at a so-called 'free consultation', bottles of water for twenty francs each and glasses of water for 10 centimes each. Lithograph by H. Daumier, c. 1835.

Patient dead in bed (Clinique du Docteur Robert Macaire)

A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.

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