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A young male physician holding the hand of a female patient, a squirrel is seated next to her chewing. Mezzotint.
Date: 3 February 1788Reference: 21781i- Books
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A vindication of the reformation, on foot, among the ladies, to abolish modesty and chastity, and restore the native simplicity of going naked. And an attempt to reconcile all opposers to it, and make them join in a speedy completion of this glorious design. By Adam Eden Esq;
Eden, Adam.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Pictures
A fashionably dressed apothecary's wife. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.Date: 1 January 1774Reference: 16090i- Pictures
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A wealthy patient falls over having a tooth extracted with vigour by a fashionable dentist. Watercolour, 18--.
Date: 1790Reference: 16598i- Pictures
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An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
Reference: 20670i- Pictures
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Richard Dickinson, an eccentric who imagines himself a wealthy king, from Scarborough. Engraving by Clark after H. Hysing.
Hysing, Hans, 1678-1752 or 1753.Date: 1725Reference: 20616i- Pictures
A devious itinerant medicine vendor and assistant perform their sales pitch to a suspicious audience, against the backdrop of the Tower of London. Etching, 1792.
Date: Publish'd as the Act directs 25 September 1782Reference: 20602i- Pictures
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A man squirting a clyster in to somebody's mouth in order to cure his toothache, at a dinner table. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16501i- Pictures
Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
Clint, George, 1770-1854.Date: [16 March 1821]Reference: 22197i- Pictures
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A greedy medical practitioner demanding a section of bread or cake (?) for payment from a poor family. Colour stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1784, after E. Penny.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: 1 June 1784Reference: 20806i