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An aggressive colonel barging his way into a doctor's consulting-room demanding to have his liver inspected. Reproduction after a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1926.
Stampa, G. L. (George Loraine), 1875-1951.Date: 1926Reference: 15464i
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A dentist telling his patient in the middle of an operation that he has nothing to fear from revolutions as dentists are always spared. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Raven-Hill, 1924.
Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942.Date: 1924Reference: 15435i
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L'assiette au beurre, 22 March 1902
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A patient telling his doctor that he doesn't mind having insomnia as long as he could get some sleep at night. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1931.
Belcher, George Frederick Arthur, 1875-1947.Date: 1931Reference: 15491i
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An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 15564i
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A psychologist asking a large, aggressive looking man to talk about his mother. Reproduction after a drawing by F. Reynolds, 1938.
Reynolds, Frank, 1876-1953.Date: 1938Reference: 15533i
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Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.
Reference: 16244i
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A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.
Reference: 16472i
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A young woman's wig and hat being swept away by a gust of wind; behind her a young man is laughing, to the left stand an amused couple. Engraving by J. Caldwell, 1771, after J. Collet.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: 2 April 1771Reference: 31644i
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A maid shows an old man his smallpocked face in a hand mirror. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
Date: 1823Reference: 16311i
Part of: Album comique
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A long parasitical worm (tapeworm) is extracted from an emaciated man. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
Date: 1823Reference: 16254i
Part of: Album comique
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A physician thinking that a cobbler's use of the title "D.M." means that he is a Doctor of Medicine. Coloured etching.
Date: [1790?]Reference: 46950i
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A hypochondriac tells her doctor that she has a pain in her heart whilst clutching the wrong side of her chest. Reproduction of a drawing after Beauchamp, 1932.
Beauchamp, active 1927.Date: 1932Reference: 15508i
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A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: 1844Reference: 30634i
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Two physicians outside the bedroom of a desperately sick man: each physician invites the other to enter first. Coloured lithograph by J.B., 18--.
Date: [approximately 1824?]Reference: 659145i
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A dentist trying to persuade a little boy that he is not going to hurt him, the child is not convinced. Reproduction after a drawing by E.H. Shepard, 1925.
Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976.Date: 1925Reference: 15443i
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A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.
Anton, 1912-1970.Date: 1940Reference: 15535i
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses arguing and going to various places to cry. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24122i
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A man who has rented a haunted castle is asked to shave the ghost of a deceased barber. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1861.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1861Reference: 30383i
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A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.
Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew), 1875-1960.Date: 1936Reference: 15525i
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A doctor examining a nervous patient's eye for foreign bodies. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1937.
Reynolds, Frank, 1876-1953.Date: 1937Reference: 15532i
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24113i
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A barber standing outside his shop confuses a passer-by with an ambiguously worded notice. Etching by R.W. Smart and aquatint by G. Hunt after W.H. Pyne.
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843.Date: 1 August 1822Reference: 29614i
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A beloved pet dog receives an enema. Line engraving by de Launay the younger after Lavrinet.
Lavrinet (Painter to the King of Sweden)Reference: 16026i
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Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 15654i