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A customer asking for a Christmas box from a dentist that he regularly visits, the dentist retorts he can have a tooth pulled for free. Wood engraving after [L.S.].
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Reference: 15643i- Pictures
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A patient being advised by a doctor not to drink beer in the morning, he retorts by saying there was no brandy available. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1876.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1876Reference: 13813i- Pictures
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A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
King, Gunning.Date: 1912Reference: 15386i- Pictures
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A patient asks his doctor's advice about visiting a hotter country; the doctor retorts that that's what he is trying to save him from. Wood engraving by P. May, 1901.
May, Philip William, 1864-1903.Date: 1901Reference: 15337i- Pictures
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A woman storming out to the dentist after having an argument with her husband; he retorts that he hopes her tongue is fixed also. Wood engraving by R. Cleaver, 1894.
Cleaver, Reginald, active 1894.Date: 1894Reference: 14305i- Pictures
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A plant (Cerinthe retorta Sibth. & Sm.): flowering plant with separate fruit and flower section. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16593i- Pictures
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A neighbour checking on an old sick man and enquiring about what the doctor has said, the old man retorts that he has recommended exercise. Wood engraving by G. King, 1907.
King, Gunning.Date: 1907Reference: 15363i- Pictures
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A vicar asking a woman if she likes her new female doctor, the woman retorts that she prefers male doctors and finds them more genteel. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Reference: 15663i- Pictures
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A dentist asking his patient if she would like gas, she retorts that she is not sure as there is a shortage on. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1921.
Thomas, Bert, 1883-1966.Date: 1921Reference: 15417i- Pictures
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A doctor advising a patient that a sea voyage is what he needs to cure him, the patient retorts that he has just returned from one. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Reference: 15548i- Pictures
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A doctor telling one of his jovial patients that he would probably make jokes on his death bed, the patient retorts he would - being his last chance. Wood engraving by P. May, 1901.
May, Philip William, 1864-1903.Date: 1901Reference: 15335i- Pictures
A dentist telling off his black assistant for not extracting a tooth, the assistant retorts that instead of the tooth he got the patients's watch and pocket book. Process print after G.E. Studdy.
Studdy, G. E., active 1910.Reference: 16777i- Pictures
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A doctor asking his patient's wife if she can possibly give the sick man some tablets, she retorts that she will make sure its possible. Reproduction of a drawing by A.E. Bestall, 1922.
Bestall, A. E., active 1922.Date: 1922Reference: 15430i- Pictures
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A doctor reprimanding the drunkenness of the village grave-digger, who retorts that he does not criticise the doctor for his mistakes - which he has to bury. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1879.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1879Reference: 13821i- Pictures
A doctor telling his patient that he needs a holiday, the patient replies he has just returned from one - the doctor retorts then I do. Reproduction of a drawing after A.T. Smith, 1937.
Smith, Albert Talbot, 1877-Date: 1937Reference: 15528i- Pictures
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A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942.Date: 1906Reference: 15348i- Pictures
A physician's wife having tea with one of her husbands patients: she enquires if he is feeling better; he retorts that the more he sees the doctor the worse he feels. Process print after G. Belcher, 1929.
Belcher, George Frederick Arthur, 1875-1947.Date: 1929Reference: 15485i- Pictures
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An exhausted nurse who has been looking after her patient for many hours asks when she may go to bed, the patient's mother retorts that she thought she was a trained nurse. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill.
Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942.Reference: 15626i- Pictures
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A doctor asking a child patient if he would like to follow a career in medicine when he was older, the child's mother retorts that he couldn't as he was unable to do anybody any harm. Wood engraving by C. Shepperson?, 1910.
Shepperson, Claude A. (Claude Allin), 1867-1921.Date: 1910Reference: 15379i- Pictures
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A woman carrying a dog in a basket being refused entry to public baths by an attandant who fears that the dog may be infested with fleas: the dog's owner retorts that she herself has more fleas. Wood engraving by S. Gap(?).
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A well dressed lady asking a doctor how one of his patients is, he retorts that the patient is no longer in his care, the relieved lady replies she is glad the patient is now out of danger. Wood engraving by C.E. Brock, 1901.
Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938.Date: 1901Reference: 15336i- Pictures
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Chemistry. Oil painting.
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Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory with people at work; the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
Date: December 1747Reference: 16047i- E-books
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A defence of the two letters to Mr. Tong, Mr. Smith, Mr. Robinson, & Mr. Reynolds, against Mr. Fancourt's Enthusiasm retorted. By Thomas Morgan
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The dissenting gentleman's answer to the Reverend Mr. White's three letters; in which a separation from the establishment is fully justified; the charge of schism is refuted and retorted; ..
Towgood, Micaiah