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  • Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
  • An infected sore on the female genitalia shown with the aid of a vaginal speculum. Watercolour by C.D' Alton, 18--.
  • A surgeon or gynaecologist examining a woman with a vaginal speculum. Drawing by Félicien Rops.
  • A surgeon or gynaecologist examining a woman with a vaginal speculum. Drawing by Félicien Rops.
  • Le speculum de la matrice a travers les ages / par V. Deneffe.
  • Top left, section of the heart; top right, intestines; centre left and right, hernia; bottom left, carotide; bottom right, speculum. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Marie Louis Félix Lejars. Process print after A. Barrère, 1930.
  • A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery (5)
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.