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A domestic remedy: a woman applies a hot iron to her husband's back while their two children look on. Coloured lithograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 17020i- Pictures
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A barber in his shop preparing to shave a customer. Coloured etching.
Date: 1 October 1804Reference: 30548i- Pictures
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A besotted physician asks his young patient to cure him of his heartache. Coloured lithograph after C. Philipon, c. 1830.
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.Date: [1830]Reference: 16382i- Pictures
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Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.Date: 1 January 1783Reference: 18066i- Pictures
An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
Cari, Godissart de, active 1820.Reference: 16243iPart of: Musée grotesque- Pictures
A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 16060i- Pictures
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A well known doctor giving a prescription to a patient and telling him if it doesn't work to come back. Reproduction of a drawing after G.L. Stampa, 1926.
Stampa, G. L. (George Loraine), 1875-1951.Date: 1926Reference: 15466i- Pictures
A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16669i- Pictures
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A doctor takes the pulse of a patient. Etching by M. Österreich, 1750, after P.L. Ghezzi.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755.Date: 1750Reference: 17938i- Pictures
A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 16121iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Pictures
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A man dresses a woman's hair. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 29701i- Pictures
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The clyster is prepared for a glutton. Colour line engraving by J.J. Leveau after himself, 1762.
Leveau, Jean Jacques, 1729-1785.Date: [1762]Reference: 15975i- Pictures
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A fashionable doctor's wife bids him goodbye for the weekend and tells him to stay away from the nasty influenza. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Pegram, 1934.
Pegram, Frederick, 1870-Date: 1934Reference: 15516i- Pictures
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A young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance; she suspects the onset of cholera. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
Date: [c. 1832]Reference: 16436iPart of: Caricatures anti-choleriques- Pictures
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Two hunters with hounds have entered a bedroom to summon another hunter whose wife does not want him to leave. Mezzotint, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 34655i- Pictures
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A man reading a newspaper supplied in a coffee house and reading room turns to ask a seated man if he has read the leader article, to whch he receives the reply that he has not, owing to the failings of newspapers. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 33684i- Pictures
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A mature fat man sits in a chair reading while another man creeps up from behind. Pen and ink drawing.
Reference: 16163i- Pictures
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A man pulling a doctor down the path to his house to see his wife whom he thinks is ill because she doesn't want to go to the sales. Process print after J. Lee, 1934.
Lee, 1901-1974.Date: 1934Reference: 15518i- Pictures
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Two philosophers engaged in conversation. Etching by A. Pond, c. 1740, after A. Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Reference: 17891i- Pictures
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A torpid patient claims to his physician that his debility is a result of serving in the war. Coloured lithograph E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798-1872.Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 16492i- Pictures
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A terrified patient misunderstanding his doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after G.S. Dixon, 1924.
Dixon, George Scholeffield, 1890-Date: 1924Reference: 15438i- Pictures
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Devils saw away at a colic sufferer's abdomen. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, 1833.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Date: [1833]Reference: 16481iPart of: L'imagination- Pictures
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A dentist being restrained in a chair, and terrified by a patient who is attempting to get his own back.Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970.Date: 1925Reference: 15449i- Pictures
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An Italian man with an extremely long bushy beard requesting a barber to confirm his advertised rate of a shave for one penny; the barber is forced to agree. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 30269i- Pictures
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A woman seated at a table, and underneath a parrot in a cage suspended from the ceiling, unaware that her wig has been set alight by a mischievous monkey; another woman screams in horror as she enters through a door, in the right foreground a cat shields her kittens from a barking dog. Etching.
Date: [c.1780]Reference: 31650i