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  • A doctor asks how his patient is feeling, the patient (a precocious child) retorts condescendingly. Reproduction of a drawing by C. A. Shepperson, 1921.
  • A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • A man taking the pulse of another man. Albumen print.
  • A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A physician administers leeches to a patient; advertising Knoll diuretic medicine. Colour process print, 19--, after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.
  • Antiochus is reclining on a bed while his physician Erasistratus is taking his pulse; King Seleucus and Queen Stratonice are seated at his bedside. Engraving by L. de Visscher after P. Berrettini da Cortona, ca. 1680.
  • Malaria: a construction worker receiving medical attention designed to prevent the spread of malaria. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.
  • A physician discovers that the patient to whom he has administered hydrotherapy has developed 'water on the brain'. Lithograph by Brandl, c. 1850.
  • An anxious patient tells his doctor that he is worried because he has started to discuss cricket with himself. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1934.
  • A country gentleman surprised at the cost of his doctor's fees. Reproduction of a drawing, 1921.
  • A doctor meets an old Scottish convalescent who bemoans the cost of health care. Wood engraving, 1914.
  • Doctors disputing, the patient is ignored. Etching by D.N. Chodowiecki, 1781.
  • A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A fashionably dressed lady meets her doctor in the park and informs him that she feels much better since he went away. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.
  • A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.
  • Misunderstanding between a doctor and his working-class patient, who has swallowed the leeches he prescribed. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1877.
  • Anatomical figures (top); a physician takes the pulse of a sick man while the next two generations attend (bottom left); surgeons perform operations on a child and a woman. Etching by D. Berger, 1774, after D. Chodowiecki.
  • A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.
  • A doctor unexpectedly visiting a patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Line engraving by B. Audran, the elder, after E. Le Sueur.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • Six scenes narrating the fuss caused by a man's progression from minor cold to supposed major illness and then sudden recovery. Etching by J. Lisle after himself.
  • A child with a swollen mouth being led by a woman to visit an apothecary, who is seated in his laboratory. Drawing by William Heath Robinson.