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A naked woman lies stretched out on the doctor's couch; she has swallowed a two sou piece; with two other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction, 1910.
Barn, Théophile.Date: July 1910Reference: 17284i- Pictures
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A fashionable lady with her servant in the desert bumps into an elderly doctor and enquires whether the area is good for rheumatism. Colour photomechanical reproduction after L. Thackeray.
Thackeray, Lance, -1916.Reference: 15716i- Pictures
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An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
Reference: 17206i- Pictures
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A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
Reference: 17208i- Pictures
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The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
Henriot, 1857-1933.Date: 1907Reference: 17268i- Pictures
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An old vagrant's corpse is stuffed with newspaper after being raided for useful organs by two pipe-smoking, wisecracking surgeons. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17010i- Pictures
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A man on a bench tells a policeman that his local hospital has no room for him, while other hospitals cannot help him because he is not local. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17063i- Pictures
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A veteran of Hotel des Invalides resists gout on account of his formidable alcohol consumption. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
Losques, Daniel Thouroude de, 1880-1915.Reference: 17203iPart of: Les médications anti-goutteuses- Pictures
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A butcher's boy describes his ailment to a doctor in terms of cuts of meat. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by Crété after B.A. Rabier, 1903.
Rabier, Benjamin, 1864-1939.Date: 7 June 1903Reference: 17195i- Pictures
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A physician rushes into an operating theatre, exclaiming that there has been an error in diagnosis; unfortunately, the patient is already lying there, opened up. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
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A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17016i- Pictures
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A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
Losques, Daniel Thouroude de, 1880-1915.Date: 1910Reference: 17202iPart of: Les médications anti-goutteuses- Pictures
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A man looms over an old woman, telling her that it will not cost her anything if he has made her daughter pregnant, as she is on welfare support: the daughter lies dishevelled in the background. Colour photomechanical reproduction of lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1902.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17064i- Pictures
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A politician out canvassing curses himself for climbing six floors to the room of an impoverished mother and her young offspring, none of whom are electorally valuable. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17019i- Pictures
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A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17018i- Pictures
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A contagiously ill man asks for the bed-pan; the nurse tells him that it will cost ten sous for the risk. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17009i- Pictures
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Photomechanical reproduction by Dawsons after H. Dawson.
Dawson, Henry, 1811-1878.Reference: 28185i- Pictures
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Vesuvius in eruption, with spectators on the beach at Naples and the Neapolitan skyline in the foreground. Colour process print after J.M.W. Turner.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.Reference: 42985i- Pictures
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A dead Soemmerring's gazelle. Reproduction of a photograph by J.D. Inverarity, ca. 1900.
Inverarity, J.D.Date: 1900Reference: 581037i- Pictures
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Study of a horse, side view, with lines of proportion marked and annotated on its body. Photographic reproduction after a pen and ink drawing attributed to A. Verrocchio, original ca. 1470-1488, reproduction, 1880-1920.
Verrocchio, Andrea del, 1435?-1488.Date: [1880-1920?]Reference: 570744i- Pictures
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Peru: a cinchona forest; a shelter and figures in a clearing. Reproduction of an engraving, 1750/1850.
Date: 1750-1850Reference: 564660i- Pictures
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A sailor sitting on a barrel and smoking. Reproduction of a woodcut, early 19th century.
Reference: 24858i- Pictures
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A woman looking upset at having to part from her male companion. Colour reproduction of a drawing by Carline.
Reference: 27087i- Pictures
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A gipsy girl having her hair dressed by an old woman. Reproduction of a wood engraving after G. Doré.
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883.Reference: 31219i- Pictures
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Sydney, New South Wales: the quarantine station: view from the mainland showing the isolation hospital and the jetty. Reproduction of a photograph, 1880/1910 (?).
Date: 1880-1910Reference: 566896i