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  • A rural man talking to his physician in the street. Drawing by S. Wood.
  • A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
  • A dentist encounters a large, violent patient. Reproduction of a drawing by A. Wallis Mills, 1920.
  • A Scotsman protests to his doctor that he should not have to pay for his presence during the period in which he was delirious. Reproduction of a drawing by P. Fraser, 1920.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.
  • A country woman suggesting to a lady of means that she encourage the local doctor even though all his previous patients have died. Wood engraving by A.S. Boyd, 1896.
  • A doctor visiting a senile old man and discussing his verdict with the patient's wife. Wood engraving by C.E. Brock, 1902.
  • A country vicar visiting a family where a child has been suffering from scarlet fever. Wood engraving after C. Shepperson.
  • A working class patient misunderstanding his doctor's diagnosis of acne as the illness being caused by his having been to Hackney. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • A youth wraps his arm protectively around his friend who has AIDS as they sit on a rock by the sea; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Kuleana Centre for Sexual Health in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by Marco Simon Tibasima, ca. 1997.