Search the collections

A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.

Date

1880

Reference

13824i

A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.

Date

1874

Reference

15667i

A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.

Date

1880

Reference

14277i

A doctor reading the 'Lancet' in a gentleman's club: another member states it is boring, and suggests they play billiards which the doctor would find more boring. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.

Date

1883

Reference

14280i

A man with bronchitis asks a chemist for a remedy. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Reference

15632i

A hospital physician asks a patient about his drinking, the patient replies whatever is on offer. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Reference

15655i

A country doctor enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.

Date

1880

Reference

13825i

A dentist demonstrating the adaptability of false teeth to an apprehensive patient by taking out his own. Ink drawing by C. Keene, 1877.

Date

[1877]

Reference

643346i

A man commenting on the beauty of women at a ball, his friend (a dentist) implies that the perfection of their smiles is due to him. Wood engraving after C. Keene, c.1882.

Date

1882

Reference

15543i

A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.

Date

11 February 1865

Reference

13802i

A Scottish doctor informing a northen farmer of the perils of consulting a southern doctor including recommending red wine rather than whiskey. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1885.

Date

1885

Reference

14285i

A dentist demonstrating the adaptability of false teeth to an apprehensive patient by taking out his own. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1877.

Date

1877

Reference

13818i

A doctor reading out a letter from a dissatisfied patient to his wife over breakfast. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1878.

Date

1878

Reference

13820i

Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.

Date

1882

Reference

14279i

An old lady in a chemists misunderstanding the use of a thermometer. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Reference

15634i

A boy telling his aunt the advantages of placing her name on the Social Register. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.

Date

1869

Reference

15690i

A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Reference

15546i

A health inspector dismayed to discover that a mother thinks her child has been vaccinated because he has been butted by a cow. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1877.

Date

1877

Reference

13814i

An invalid in bed groaning at his servant's grammatical error. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.

Date

1880

Reference

13822i

A doctor is dismayed to discover that his patient has been eating animal feed when he had recommended animal food. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1879.

Date

1879

Reference

13819i

A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Reference

15662i

An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.

Date

1874

Reference

13810i

Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.

Date

[1869]

Reference

35340i

One country doctor asks another to assist him in a post mortem on the corpse of one of his successfully-treated patients. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.

Date

1883

Reference

14282i

A doctor reprimanding the drunkenness of the village grave-digger, who retorts that he does not criticise the doctor for his mistakes - which he has to bury. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1879.

Date

1879

Reference

13821i