Apothecary, patient and physician, 14th century.

Carved stone relief of Greek physician and patient

M0007295: A physician and surgeon treating a female patient

Patient in bed, two nurses and a physician standing by.

A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.

A physician and two assistants attending a plague patient. Lithographic reproduction of a woodcut.

A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.

A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.

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The celebrity physician and the plague

Doctors and the English seaside

The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

Aphasia and drawing elephants

Physician and patient : personal care / edited by L. Eugene Emerson.

Physician and patient; or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker ; edited by Edward Bentley.

Physician and patient, or, A practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker [sic] ; edited by Edward Bentley.

Physician Superintendent's List of Patients

Patient photographs

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The celebrity physician and the plague

Doctors and the English seaside

The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

Aphasia and drawing elephants

Images

Catalogue

Physician and patient : personal care / edited by L. Eugene Emerson.

Physician and patient; or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker ; edited by Edward Bentley.

Physician and patient, or, A practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker [sic] ; edited by Edward Bentley.

Physician Superintendent's List of Patients

Patient photographs

Wellcome uses cookies.

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Stories

The celebrity physician and the plague

Doctors and the English seaside

The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

Aphasia and drawing elephants

Images

Catalogue

Physician and patient : personal care / edited by L. Eugene Emerson.

Physician and patient; or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker ; edited by Edward Bentley.

Physician and patient, or, A practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker [sic] ; edited by Edward Bentley.

Physician Superintendent's List of Patients

Patient photographs