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Sense of humors : the human factor in the history of medicine / Luca Borghi.
Borghi, Luca, 1962-Date: [2022]- Books
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Travel Medicine: Tales Behind the Science.
Wilder-Smith, AnneliesDate: 2007- Pictures
A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 16121iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Books
Laughing at cancer : how to heal with love, laughter and mindfulness / Ros Ben-Moshe.
Ben-Moshe, RosDate: 2017- Books
Medicina alegre : frades contra medicos / Silva Carvalho.
Carvalho, Silva.Date: [1921?]- Pictures
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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.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1880Reference: 14277i- Archives and manuscripts
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Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)
Date: Early 14th century - Late 17th CenturyReference: MS.531- Pictures
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Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1892Reference: 14295i- Pictures
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A major discussing medicine with two doctors. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Reference: 15680i- Pictures
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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.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1874Reference: 13810i- Pictures
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A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1893Reference: 14302i- Pictures
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A military doctor prescribing whiskey lotion for a soldier's sprained foot - his patient requesting Irish. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.
Corbould, A. Chantrey (Alfred Chantrey), 1852-1920.Date: 1885Reference: 14283i- Pictures
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A patient completely misunderstanding a doctor. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945.Date: 1898Reference: 14316i- Pictures
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A mother explaning to a doctor that her baby's medicine has been used up quickly because the whole family tried it - to encourage baby to take some. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Prance, 1923.
Prance, Bertram, 1889-Date: 1923Reference: 15431i- Pictures
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A seaman telling the ship's doctor that hard work is bad for him. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942.Date: 1898Reference: 14309i- Archives and manuscripts
Humorous item: letter in Dorset dialect, purportedly from John Green, West Lulworth, Dorset, to "Mr. Basket, Surjon, Potticary, Warham", requesting medicine for his wife
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7704/3Part of: Miscellany: English, 18th-19th centuries- Books
Alma y enfermedad en la obra de Galeno : Introducción, traducción y comentario e "Las facultades del alma se derivan de la complexion humoral del cuerpo" / [Luis García-Ballester].
García Ballester, Luis.Date: 1968- Books
Which treatment is best? : spoof or proof? / Teddy Bader.
Bader, Teddy F., 1953-Date: 2023- Pictures
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A doctor expressing his thanks to a wealthy man for overpaying him, he hopes to pay him back in work. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1894.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1894Reference: 14304i- Pictures
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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.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1877Reference: 13814i- Pictures
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A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17852i- Pictures
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A dismayed man reading his doctor's recommendations to cut back on aspects of life that he enjoys. Wood engraving by Swains, 1888, after Sir J. Tenniel.
Tenniel, John, 1820-1914.Date: 1888Reference: 14289i- Pictures
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A doctor reading out a letter from a dissatisfied patient to his wife over breakfast. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1878.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1878Reference: 13820i- Pictures
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A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 15343i- Pictures
A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945.Date: 1912Reference: 15395i