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  • A young homoeopath takes a cup to a sick young man hidden in his bed. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A dandified physician takes the lancet to a turkey, watched over by fashionable women. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • A dandified physician takes the lancet to a turkey, watched over by fashionable women. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • A young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance; she suspects the onset of cholera. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
  • People smelling flowers on the steps of an ornamental garden; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1638.
  • A young homoeopathic doctor converses with his patient. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A group of aristocrats visit a young man in hospital. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by P. Hérault, c. 1925.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • The phrenologist Gall examines the heads of two young society people. Coloured line engraving.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Coloured lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.
  • A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840.
  • A beloved pet dog receives an enema. Line engraving by de Launay the younger after Lavrinet.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
  • An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.
  • A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.
  • Marie de Medici dressed in warlike form as Minerva, goddess of arts. Engraving by J.B. Massé, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A two-dimensional female figure/nurse made of mixed media holding a limp horizontal figure made of a tube of zinc white paint with arms on a textile background bearing the letters 'SIDA' in each corner; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph [by Eduardo Ponjuán and René Francisco], ca. 1995.