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Dialogue includes: Doctor (looking at clinical thermometer) "Hello! This won't do - hundred-and-three!" Golfing patient. "What's Bogey?"

1 print : wood engraving ; border 17.6 x 12 cm,

A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.

Dialogue includes: Wounded Soldier. "It aches something cruel." Visitor. "Have you told the doctor?" Soldier. "No. I don't tell him much of how I feels - it only discourages him."

1 print : wood engraving ; border 13.1 x 17.9 cm

A patient complains to a visitor that he does not discuss with his doctor how he feels for fear of discouraging him. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1915.

Dialogue includes: School medical officer (examining child's eyes) "Now little girl, can you see my finger?" Child (coyly) "I shan't tell you."

1 print : wood engraving ; border 12.1 x 18 cm

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A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.

A patient complains to a visitor that he does not discuss with his doctor how he feels for fear of discouraging him. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1915.

A school medical officer trying to give a child an eye-test in front of a classroom of children. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1909.

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A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.

A patient complains to a visitor that he does not discuss with his doctor how he feels for fear of discouraging him. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1915.

A school medical officer trying to give a child an eye-test in front of a classroom of children. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1909.

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