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  • A sick boy pulling a peculiar face after eating some gruel which also contained some medicine. Engraving by W. Holl, the younger, after W. Hunt.
  • 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.
  • A doctor and nurses playing cards in a room with a sick patient. Process print after L.T. Lackernay.
  • A doctor asking his messenger if he delivered some medicine to one of his patients. Process print after W. Lunt, 1913.
  • A doctor attends a sick patient (who has the head of a railway engine); representing an industrial dispute regarding railway transport. Pen drawing by C.H. Phelp, 1919.
  • "Doctor Panurgus" curing the folly of his patients by purgative medicines and chemical cures. Line engraving attributed to Michael Droeshout, 16--.
  • A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.
  • A doctor visiting a sick child who is surrounded by medicine bottles, his mother waits in the background. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1911.
  • A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.
  • A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.