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  • The characters (in silhouette) from Molière's play 'Le malade imaginaire'. Process print.
  • Doctor Diafoirus, a physician from Molière's play Le malade imaginaire. Coloured etching.
  • Doctor Purgon, a physician from Molière's play Le malade imaginaire. Coloured etching.
  • Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac, complaining of his ailments to his nurse. Pen and ink drawing by L. Frölich, 1859.
  • Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac feigning illness in front of Béline, his wife and Dr. Purgon, his physician, in a scene from Molière's play. Etching by G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.
  • Physician taking the pulse of a hypochondriac, 19th Century.
  • A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
  • Description Le Malade
  • A hypochondriac imagining himself being prepared for burial. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1833.
  • A hypochondriac imagining himself being prepared for burial. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1833.
  • A hypochondriac imagining himself being prepared for burial. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1833.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • An injured patient, John Hill, in bed surrounded by a group of physicians. Etching by Clyster-Pipe after Bolus M.D., 1752.