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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.
Lisle, Joe.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 12091i- Pictures
Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician examining a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block after A. Gill, 1872.
Gill, André, 1840-1885Date: 28 juillet 1872Reference: 657722i- Pictures
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A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 8 May 1831Reference: 11852iPart of: Grants oddities- Books
Medicine & pharmacy in American political prints, 1765-1870 / by William H. Helfand.
Helfand, William H.Date: 1978- Pictures
Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician holding up a baby boy just delivered of a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1872.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 4 Août 1872Reference: 657723i- Pictures
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Two devils in a laboratory produce statutes with the help of a genie; showing the repressive nature of the government of France under Louis-Philippe, especially concerning the freedom of the press. Lithograph by E. Le Poittevin, 1831.
Lepoittevin, Eugène-Modeste-Edmond, 1806-1870.Date: [1831]Reference: 16442i- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 13
Date: March - June 1903Reference: WF/E/03/13Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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A man with influenza, taken in hand by a doctor, surrounded by dancing politicians. Wood engraving by Pépin (E. Guillaumin), 1889.
Pépin, 1842-Date: 12 January 1890Reference: 31072i- Pictures
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Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.
Date: 1918Reference: 11862i- Digital Images
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Caricatural illustration of ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)
Madeleine Kuijper illustraties- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Digital Images
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A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by
G. M. Woodward- Pictures
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A man barking and drinking port, following a doctor's orders. Coloured aquatint by I. Wilson after M. Egerton, 182-..
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1825?]Reference: 11877i- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1827Reference: 11861i- Pictures
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A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828.Date: 1827Reference: 11893i- Pictures
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W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: June 22nd 1889Reference: 13793i- Books
She may look clean, but ... / Michael Rhode.
Rhode, Michael.Date: [©1994-]- Pictures
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A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: October 1807Reference: 11876iPart of: Miseries of human life- Pictures
A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1832]Reference: 16136i- Pictures
A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 20990i- Pictures
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A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17852i- Pictures
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Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Process print, 19--, after G. Cruikshank, 183-.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 21035i- Books
Drawing on tragedy / by Mike Rhode.
Rhode, Michael.Date: [©1994-]- Pictures
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Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i