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  • A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • 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.
  • Café Procope, Paris: men and women chatting over drinks. Aquatint.
  • A group of young, fashionable doctors. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, 1823.
  • A young doctor (homeopath?) visiting a patient and comforting his worried wife. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A politician out canvassing curses himself for climbing six floors to the room of an impoverished mother and her young offspring, none of whom are electorally valuable. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • A young doctor confides in his equally fashionably dressed friend. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
  • A poor man suffering from indigestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • A man resting after a drink; representing good digestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A beloved pet dog receives an enema. Line engraving by de Launay the younger after Lavrinet.
  • Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: charitable ladies visiting hospital patients with gifts of cigarettes and cakes. Coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Dr. J. Alibert taking serum from a servant's baby to vaccinate the child of Mme Desbordes-Valmore. Photograph, 1938, of a painting by C. Desbordes, 1822.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Tiles painted with places familiar to Tunisian visitors and immigrants to France. Colour lithograph by A. Bellavita for the Féderation des Tunisiens pour une Citoyenneté des Deux Rives.
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological faculties, and diagrams of heads showing criminal and moral propensities. Wood engraving, c. 1850, after F. Bridges and O.S. Fowler.
  • Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself; 1894. Frontispiece