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An obese gouty man with his feet in buckets. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 10735i- Pictures
An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11822i- Archives and manuscripts
Personal material
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.6137Part of: Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society- Pictures
A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
Reference: 17440i- Pictures
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A young woman engrossed in raptures at her desk, with her hands in her lap: a man [a servant?] appears in the background. Mezzotint, 1772.
Date: 17 April 1772Reference: 12077i- Pictures
A lecherous doctor taking the pulse of an attractive young woman. Mezzotint, 1772.
Date: Published as the Act directs, 16 March 1772Reference: 11199i- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching R. Newton, 1795, after himself.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Date: 10 February 1795Reference: 11866i- Pictures
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A doctor and footman hurling pudding at each other in an attempt to make the obese patient laugh in order to cure his quinsey. Coloured engraving by R. Newton, 1797.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Date: 10 August 1797Reference: 10971i- Pictures
A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1796Reference: 17465i- Pictures
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A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
Collings, Samuel.Date: 1803Reference: 586040i- Pictures
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A gouty man surrounded by horse-riding accoutrements. Coloured engraving by Maddox after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Reference: 10734i- Pictures
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 22263i- Pictures
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A gouty man who is drinking wine and playing the cello; the pain is represented by a devil burning his foot. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Reference: 10504i- Pictures
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1743Reference: 22260i- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Pictures
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Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.
Reference: 21782i- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop arriving at the home of Tristram Shandy, where Mr. Shandy is seated with a friend and smoking. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 1820Reference: 22023i- Pictures
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A 'dentiste' extracting the tooth of a large well dressed gentleman. Coloured mezzotint by J. Wilson after himself, 1773.
Wilson, James, 1735-1786.Date: 15 April 1773Reference: 16522i- Pictures
A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 July 1802Reference: 10512i- Pictures
A wealthy Dutch man comforting his wife after giving birth, the child is being fed by a nursemaid. Engraving by P. Tanje, 1757, after C. Troost.
Troost, Cornelis, 1697-1750.Date: 1757Reference: 17236i- Archives and manuscripts
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Sales catalogue 163: The Walpole Galleries
Date: 19 October - 20 October 1920Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/382APart of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Pictures
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A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.
Reference: 21623i- Pictures
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A barber playing the tragic role of Alexander the Great in the acting style of David Garrick. Mezzotint after R. Dighton.
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814.Date: [1788?]Reference: 29532i- Pictures
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An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Date: [26 February 1822]Reference: 11906i- Pictures
Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 13 July 1799Reference: 10640i